Bend City Councilors are
poised to make a decision on
whether to continue pursuing
a $73 million overhaul of the
Bridge Creek water system within the next several weeks.
On Wednesday, councilors
heard new financial information
that
showed
upgrading the
“I think
Bridge Creek
infrastructure
we do our
community would save be$372 mila disservice tween
lion and $454
for the next million over the
next 50 years
50 to 100
years if we when compared
to switching to
abandon
an all-well sysour surface tem that would
water.”
pump groundwater to meet
— Oran
Bend’s
water
Teater, Bend demands.
city councilor
They
were
also given information about
complex water rights issues that
could threaten the city’s chances of being able to pump more
groundwater if it gave up its surface water system.
These issues made some councilors, in particular Mark Capell
and Oran Teater, act as if upgrading the Bridge Creek system was
the only option.
“This is significantly more
clear for me,” Councilor Oran
Teater said after the more than
an hour long presentation. “I
think we do our community a
disservice for the next 50 to 100
years if we abandon our surface
water.”
An upgrade to the Bridge
Creek system has several components, including replacing 10
miles of aging pipelines and adding a high-tech filtration system
that would protect against future
wildfires and treat for dangerous
bacteria and microorganisms,
like Cryptosporidium. City officials also want to add a hydropower plant that would take advantage of Bridge Creek’s higher
elevation and use gravity to generate electricity.
When first proposed, the cost
of the project was estimated at
$71 million, and expected to
generate $1.7 million in hydropower revenues in the first year
of operation.
See Bend / A5

By Nick Budnick
The Bulletin

Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

Central Oregon Emergency Response Team members prepare to move into position during a Sept. 27 standoff
at the Greenwood Manor apartment complex in northeast Bend. During the four-hour incident, negotiators spoke
by phone with a man who had barricaded himself inside his apartment and was making threats about using guns
and bombs.

BEND POLICE NEGOTIATORS

Fighting crime with words
Following last week’s standoff, officers discuss aspects of job
By Erin Golden
The Bulletin

A

fter a Bend man made
threats about violence and
barricaded himself inside
his northeast Bend apartment last
week, dozens of police turned out to
help get the situation under control.
Curious onlookers who gathered along the sidewalks near the
Greenwood Manor apartment complex watched as police cars and
armored vehicles pulled up and
SWAT team members put on their
gear and surrounded the building.
They saw officers monitoring the
situation from a command center in
a nearby parking lot.
What they couldn’t see, however, was one of the most important
parts of the entire operation: The
police negotiators who spent nearly
four hours talking to the man on the
phone, trying to figure out what he
planned to do and keep him from
hurting himself or anyone else.
The incident ended without any
injuries when officers fired a Taser
through a broken window and then
took 52-year-old Mark Hipple into
custody. Police had believed Hipple
was armed with a rifle, but later
found that he had no weapons in his
apartment.
See Negotiators / A4

Dean Guernsey / The Bulletin

Officer Kecia Weaver and Sgt. Dan Ritchie of the Bend Police Department stand inside the mobile command unit where negotiations are
conducted during standoffs involving the Central Oregon Emergency
Response Team. Weaver and Ritchie are two of the seven negotiators
who work with the team.

“They’re trained and have the ability to talk to
somebody, to make sense of the things that aren’t
making sense.”
— Lt. Paul Kansky, Bend Police Department

Stem cell case spells uncertainty for scientists
By Amy Harmon
New York Times News Service

CINCINNATI — Rushing to
work at Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center one
recent morning, Dr. Jason
Spence, 33, grabbed a moment
during breakfast to type “stem
cells” into Google and click for
the last 24 hours of news. It is
a routine he has performed
daily in the six weeks since a
U.S. District Court ruling put
the future of his research in
jeopardy.
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said Spence, who has spent
four years training to turn
stem cells derived from human embryos into pancreatic
tissue in the hope of helping
diabetes patients. “You have
this career plan to do all of
this research, and the thought
that they could just shut it off is
pretty nerve-racking.”
Perhaps more than any other field of science, the study
of embryonic stem cells has
been subject to ethical objections and shaped by political
opinion.
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Brivanlou,
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do research
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cells at The
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SALEM — Oregon’s next governor will inherit a
projected hole of more than $3 billion in the 2011-13
two-year general fund budget. And whoever wins
that job — Republican Chris Dudley or Democrat
John Kitzhaber — won’t find it
an easy task.
While the governor is able to
propose a budget, it’s the Legislature that approves it. And though
the governor is tasked with negotiating labor contracts, the Legislature can influence that as well.
Not only that, but there is a
slew of entrenched interests,
many with lobbyists, ready to do
battle over state spending.
“Every spending category has
its own interest group, so I don’t
think any of it’s easy money,”
said Chuck Sheketoff of the Oregon Center for Public Policy,
which tracks state spending.
The likelihood of another large Chris Dudley
stimulus boost from the federal
government?
“At the moment, close to zero,”
says Bill Lunch, chairman of the
Oregon State University political
science department and an OPB
commentator.
So which gubernatorial candidate is better poised to tackle
the next budget, and who has the John
better plan?
Kitzhaber
First, the plans.
Dudley, a former NBA player
turned investment adviser, has proposed a budget plan that makes going after labor and pension
costs of state employees a priority. For instance,
he wants state employees to contribute one-sixth
of their health care costs, and to reverse the state’s
decision to pay for employees’ retirement contributions, which amount to 6 percent of payroll. He
wants to undertake a variety of initiatives that create better budgeting, privatize state operations and
look for waste in government.
See Budget / A5

ELECTION

HEALTH CARE

Waivers used
to counter dropped
coverage in U.S.
By Reed Abelson
New York Times News Service

As Obama administration officials put into
place the first major wave of changes under the
health care legislation, they have tried to defuse
stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald’s and some insurers — by granting dozens
of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far
below the new law’s standards.
The waivers have been issued in the past several weeks as part of a broader strategic effort to
stave off threats by some health insurers to abandon markets, drop out of the business altogether
or refuse to sell certain policies.
Among those that administration officials hoped
to mollify with waivers were some big insurers,
some smaller employers and McDonald’s, which
went so far as to warn that the regulations could
force it to strip workers of existing coverage.
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WASHINGTON — The nation’s
largest teachers union is jumping
into the midterm congressional elections, mostly on behalf of Democrats,
with what it describes as a $15 million
advertising fund “to elect education
champions.”
The National Education Association’s foray into dozens of battleground races comes despite President
Obama’s advocacy of school-improvement policies that rankle many union
activists, such as teacher performance
pay and staff shake-ups at low-performing schools.
Karen White, the NEA’s political
director, said the 3.2 million-member
union is in sync with Obama more
often than not. As an example, she

pointed to his support for a $10 billion
education funding bill that the Democratic-led Congress passed in August
over Republican opposition.
“That education jobs bill got so many
of our members engaged,” White said.
“It was a turning point for us.”

‘Bumps in the road’

She played down controversy
over Obama’s school reform agenda as “bumps in the road,” adding,
“we share the same goals as this
administration.”
Critics of the union say that it stands
for the status quo in education and
against innovation, which the NEA
disputes. The next Congress is likely
to debate revisions to the 2002 No
Child Left Behind law, a key issue for

the union.
The NEA said its first round of television ads began airing this week in
Arizona, where the union is supporting Rep. Harry Mitchell (D), and in
Ohio, where it is backing Rep. Betty
Sutton (D).
Overall, White said, the union plans
$40 million in political spending this
election cycle. In dozens of targeted
races, most of the union’s recommended candidates are Democrats.
But NEA officials said they are backing selected Republicans who have
supported their causes, including Sen.
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Reps.
Anh “Joseph” Cao (La.) and Judy Biggert (Ill.).
The American Federation of Teachers, with 1.5 million members, declined to discuss its political spending.

LAKE MARY, Fla. — The disabled
girl who was bullied on a Florida
school bus turned the tables on her
tormentors Tuesday by thanking
them for empowering her to defend
other disabled children.
“Thank you so much for bullying me because it taught me a lesson
about disabled kids,” said Chatari
Jones, 12, who suffers from cerebral
palsy. “We are disabled for a reason.”
Cerebral palsy is a disorder that
affects communication, posture and
other motor skills.
Although her parents said she does
not show many outward signs of the
disorder, it has affected her speech
and walk.
James Willie Jones and Deborah
McFadden-Jones joined their daughter and attorney Natalie Jackson as

they addressed the media Tuesday at
their church, Spirit of Truth Ministries in Lake Mary, Fla.
Her father said Chatari’s ordeal
at the hands of bullies who spit in
her hair and called her names, often
sparked by her disability, has given
her the courage to speak nationally
and publicly about the taunts children
under similar circumstances suffer at
school.
Julie Hertzog, director of PACER’s
National Center for Bullying Prevention in Minnesota, also was on hand
to express her gratitude to Chatari.
“We have a number of kids with
disabilities who are being bullied,”
Hertzog said. “Hopefully, (Chatari’s)
courage and bravery will spare
others.”
The family has been holding new
conferences in hopes of drawing attention to the problems of bullying.

October is National Bullying Prevention Month.
A security video shot from inside a
Seminole County school bus in September catapulted James Jones into
the media spotlight because it showed
him boarding the bus at a stop and
threatening students for allegedly
bullying his daughter.
Seminole County Sheriff’s Office deputies a few days later arrested Jones on charges of disorderly
conduct and disturbing a school
function.
He faces misdemeanor charges and
is out on bond.
Jones apologized for his violent reaction on national television, as well
as during a September press conference at the family’s church. He said
he did not want parents to act out as
he had done, especially when children are concerned.

By Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy -Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama
used a special White House conference Tuesday to
tout the nation’s community colleges as offering a
path to the American dream for underprivileged
citizens and as essential centers for training the
21st-century work force.
He glossed over, however, the serious funding
challenges that these
institutions face.
Calling community “Community
colleges the “unsung colleges are
heroes” of the U.S.
educational
system, uniquely
Obama said that they American, places
“provide a gateway to
millions of Americans where anyone
to good jobs and a bet- who walks
ter life.”
Jill Biden, the wife through the door
of Vice President Joe is one step closer
Biden,
introduced
to the American
Obama during the first
White House meeting dream.”
on community colleges. She has been — Jill Biden, wife of
a community college Vice President Joe
professor for the past Biden
17 years and a tireless
advocate for the twoyear schools. She spearheaded the daylong event,
which brought together educators from across the
nation for brainstorming.
“Community colleges are uniquely American,
places where anyone who walks through the door
is one step closer to the American dream,” Jill
Biden said during an opening ceremony that featured the unveiling of a $35 million grant from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
That donation will set up a grant program for
five years whose goal will be to reverse a trend in
which roughly half of community college students
fail to achieve certificates or associate’s degrees.
The White House also announced a new publicprivate partnership to foster closer links between
community colleges and corporate America, labor
unions and government agencies. This effort will
try to standardize what has worked best at various
schools, particularly in creating certified skills
that can be recognized across the nation.
The National Association of Manufacturers has
pioneered the concept of national recognition and
so-called stackable skills for a modern work force.
Its Manufacturing Institute already is engaged in
three national pilot projects, including one in Winston-Salem, N.C., that recently helped convince
Caterpillar Inc. to locate a plant there.
Yet the National Association of Manufacturers,
which has been critical of the Obama administration on tax matters, was conspicuously absent
from the list of invitees. Association officials confirmed the snub but declined to comment.
“I’d say they’ve been trailblazers,” said David
Baime, the senior vice president for government
relations at the American Association of Community Colleges.
His association nonetheless was thrilled to be in
the spotlight.
“The event is going to be a red-letter day for
community colleges. We have felt for some time
that our contributions have not been recognized,”
Baime said. “Policymakers are still surprised to
learn that over 45 percent of all students in higher education attend community colleges in this
country.”
Obama challenged the educators to help him
meet his goal of having the United States recoup
by 2020 its position as the nation with the highest
percentage of college graduates.

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Americans scaling back college fund deposits
By Ylan Q. Mui
The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — American
families are scaling back plans
to pay for their children’s college
education as the stunted economic recovery continues to weigh on
household budgets, according to
a survey commissioned by college lender Sallie Mae.
The study, which was conducted by Gallup, found that the percentage of families who planned
to make little or no contribution to tuition increased, while
the percentage who expected to
cover more than half of expenses
decreased. The trends were particularly pronounced in Hispanic
families, where the number who
thought they could only pay a
little jumped from 12 percent to
35 percent.
In addition, the percentage of
families who said the reason they
are not socking away money for
college is that they cannot afford
it rose from 62 percent last year
to 68 percent this year.
“They’re adjusting their expectations to the economic con-

ditions, both generally and what
they may be experiencing on the
individual level,” said Bill Diggins, Gallup’s lead researcher on
the survey.
Still, the study found that even
though families are financially
stressed, saving for college remained a priority. About onefifth of families reported it as a
top financial goal — up from 14
percent last year and on par with
those who rank saving for retirement as the priority.

Flash point in D.C.
The rising cost of college education has become a flash point
in Washington as the recession
hampered families’ ability to foot
the bill. According to a survey
by the nonprofit College Board,
which administers standardized
tests, the cost of attending a private university has risen 2.6 percent a year over the past decade,
while public college jumped
nearly 5 percent annually.
On average, families have
saved about $28,000 to pay for

college. About 12 percent of that
money is in 529 plans, while
14 percent comes from general
savings accounts or certificates
of deposit. Another 21 percent
comes from investments, but the
largest portion of that money
— 23 percent — is in retirement
savings.

A ‘bit disturbing’
Sallie Mae Senior Vice President Sarah Ducich said the finding that families are relying
heavily on retirement accounts
“is a little bit disturbing.”
Financial experts say that raiding retirement accounts to pay for
children’s college can be risky.
There are tax penalties and other
fees if money is withdrawn from
the accounts early, and loans
against a retirement plan come
with restrictions on how quickly
they must be paid off and the
amount that can be borrowed.
“The education and the retirement are two different buckets.
We would never put them together,” said Marcia Tillotson, senior

vice president of investments for
Wells Fargo Advisors. “You can
borrow for college. You cannot
borrow for retirement.”
The study also found that although low-income families
saved less money than wealthy
households, they still put away
an average of $1,788 annually
toward college. For families making less than $35,000, that represents about 8 percent of their
budget — the largest percentage
of any income level. Families
making more than $100,000, for
example, saved 2.6 percent of

their income.
Ducich said the finding underscores the value of college education to poor families, many of
whom may not have had similar
opportunities.
“For these families, that’s the
ticket out,” she said.

KABUL, Afghanistan —
The U.S. apologized Wednesday for the deaths of two Pakistani paramilitary troops and
the wounding of four others
in a cross-border airstrike by
U.S. helicopters that prompted
Islamabad to close two vital
supply routes used by the U.S.led force in Afghanistan.
The latest flare-up comes
as the Obama administration
steps
up
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and private Related
pressure on
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groups. A
new White
House report to Congress says
bluntly that Pakistan’s civilian
and military leaders have been
unwilling to attack al-Qaida
and other terrorist groups, The
Wall Street Journal reported
Wednesday.
Officials in Washington said
that intensified strikes inside
Pakistan by manned and pilotless aircraft — and reportedly
also by Afghan fighters — are
an effort to pressure Pakistan
to move against the Haqqani
network, an insurgent group
based in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area.
“The message is clear: ‘If
you won’t act, we will,’ ” said
one U.S. official in Washington, who wasn’t authorized to
talk about the issue.
Wednesday’s apology by the
U.S. ambassador to Pakistan,
Anne Patterson, came after
the U.S.-led force in Afghanistan announced that a joint
investigation into the Sept. 30
incident conducted with the
Pakistani military found that
the U.S. helicopters mistook
the paramilitary troops for
insurgents.

U.S. SUPREME COURT

Justices hear funeral-protest case
By Adam Liptak

Challenge
to background
checks falters
before court

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard arguments
Wednesday in a highly charged
case involving protesters objecting to homosexuality who picketed a military funeral.
The father of a fallen Marine
sued members of a Kansas church
who had used his son’s funeral to
spread their message that God is
punishing the United States for
its tolerance of homosexuality by
killing its soldiers.
“We’re talking about a funeral,”
Sean Summers, a lawyer for the
father, Albert Snyder, told the justices. “Mr. Snyder simply wanted
to bury his son in a private, dignified manner.”
The lawyer on the other side,
Margie Phelps, said the First
Amendment protected the protest, where seven pickets at some
distance from the funeral carried
signs with messages like “Thank
God for dead soldiers” and “God
hates you.”
Phelps is a daughter of the
pastor of the church, Westboro
Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan.
Her argument alternated between smooth exposition of First
Amendment doctrine and support for the church’s message.
“Nation, hear this little church,”
she said. “If you want them to stop
dying, stop sinning.”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
noted that state and local governments had enacted laws creating content-neutral buffer zones
around funerals. She suggested
that those sorts of laws were a
better societal response to protests than allowing private-injury
suits.
Justice Samuel Alito Jr. said
the existence of a buffer zone imposed by law did not necessarily
pre-empt other remedies.
Snyder won an $11 million jury
verdict against the pastor, Fred
Phelps Sr., and his church, for intentional infliction of emotional
distress, which required proof of
outrageous conduct, and for invasion of privacy. But a federal appeals court overturned the verdict
on First Amendment grounds.
The argument Wednesday
featured disputes about the facts
and a parade of hypothetical
alternatives.
Summers said that some of the
signs made the fallen Marine,
Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, and

WASHINGTON — Scientists at a California
research facility appeared likely to lose their
challenge to background
checks required by a Bush
administration anti-terrorism initiative, judging from
the justices’ questions
on Tuesday during arguments at the Supreme
Court.
Starting in 2005, the
government required
federal contractors to conduct background checks
of their employees using
standard forms. The scientists objected to inquiries
about drug counseling and
wide-ranging questioning
of their acquaintances.
The issue in the case was
whether making the scientists submit to the checks
as a condition of employment violated a constitutional right to privacy.
In two decisions in 1977,
the Supreme Court said
there might be a constitutional right to “informational privacy,” but the
court was not clear about
its possible scope.
Neal Katyal, the acting
solicitor general, argued
the case for the government. He urged the court
to take only a small step
toward bringing clarity to
the topic by ruling that the
background checks at
issue did not violate whatever right existed.
Katyal argued that when
the government acted
as an employer, he said,
it should be able to ask
about potentially relevant
matters just as private employers would do.
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News Service

Drew Angerer / New York Times News Service

Margie Phelps, right, and Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church, of Tokepa, Kan.,
speak to the press outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday. In a test for freespeech and the First Amendment versus privacy, the Supreme Court heard arguments as to whether
the church has a protected right to hold anti-gay protests at U.S. military funerals.
his family their targets, including one that said, “You’re going to
hell.”
Ginsburg noted that the
church used those signs at many
protests.
“It sounds like the ‘you’ was the
whole society, the whole rotten
society in their view,” she said.

Intrusion out of case
Summers then made a concession that some justices seemed to
view as problematic, saying that
his client would have had no case
if the signs were purely political
protests against, say, the war in
Iraq.
“So the intrusion upon the privacy of the funeral is out of the
case,” Justice Antonin Scalia
mused.
Summers tried to distinguish
his case from the leading decision
in this area, Hustler Magazine v.
Falwell in 1988, which overturned
a jury award in favor of the Rev.
Jerry Falwell for intentional infliction of emotional distress.
That case involved a public figure, Summers said, while Snyder
was a private one.

Justice Elena Kagan responded
with a quotation from the Falwell
decision.
“ ‘Outrageousness’ in the area
of political and social discourse
has an inherent subjectiveness
about it which would allow a jury
to impose liability on the basis
of the jurors’ tastes or views, or
perhaps on the basis of their dislike of a particular expression,”
she said, quoting Chief Justice
William Rehnquist’s majority
opinion.
“How is that sentence less implicated,” Kagan asked, “in a case
about a private figure than a case
about a public figure?”
Summers said private grief
raised different issues.

Other methods
Kagan and Alito asked Phelps
questions about other sorts of potentially hurtful conduct, like following a wounded soldier around
or accosting a grandmother after
a visit to a soldier’s grave.
Phelps for the most part parried the questions, saying that
antistalking laws and the “fighting words” exception to the First

Amendment could address those
situations.
The church’s conduct was different, she said.
“Seven picketers,” she said. “A
thousand feet away. Out of sight.
Out of sound.”
They were, she added, “standing where the police said to
stand.”
The Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press and 21 news
organizations, including The New
York Times Co., filed a brief supporting the Kansas church. It said
the First Amendment protects
even hateful speech on matters of
public concern.
Before the argument in the
case, Snyder v. Phelps, No. 09751, members of the church protested outside the Supreme Court.
Abigail Phelps, another one of the
pastor’s daughters, carried a sign
that said “America is doomed.”
Phelps said she expected
the court to rule in favor of the
church.
“They’re going to uphold the
law of the land that you may express a contrary view in a public
forum without being sued,” she
said.

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Taliban representatives and the
government of Afghan President
Hamid Karzai have begun secret,
high-level talks over a negotiated
end to the war, according to Afghan and Arab sources.
The talks follow inconclusive
meetings, hosted by Saudi Arabia, that ended more than a year
ago. While emphasizing the preliminary nature of the current
discussions, the sources said that
for the first time they believe that
Taliban representatives are fully
authorized to speak for the Quetta Shura, the Afghan Taliban
organization based in Pakistan,
and its leader, Mohammad Omar.
“They are very, very serious
about finding a way out,” one
source close to the talks said of
the Taliban.
Although Omar’s representatives have long publicly insisted
that negotiations were impossible
until all foreign troops withdraw,
a position seemingly buoyed by
the Taliban’s resilience on the
battlefield, sources said the Quetta Shura has begun to talk about
a comprehensive agreement that
would include participation of
some Taliban figures in the government and the withdrawal of
U.S. and NATO troops on an
agreed timeline.
The leadership knows “that
they are going to be sidelined,”
the source said. “They know that
more radical elements are being
promoted within their rank and
file outside their control. . . . All
these things are making them
absolutely sure that, regardless of
‘their success in’ the war, they are
not in a winning position.”
A half-dozen sources directly
involved in or on the margins of

the talks agreed to discuss them
on the condition of anonymity.
All emphasized the preliminary
nature of the talks, even as they
differed on how specific they
have been. All expressed concern
that any public description of the
meetings would undercut them.
“If you talk about it while
you’re doing it, it’s not going to
work,” said one European official whose country has troops in
Afghanistan.
Several sources said the discussions with the Quetta Shura
do not include representatives of
the Haqqani group, a separately
led faction that U.S. intelligence
considers particularly brutal and
that has been the target of recently escalated U.S. drone attacks in
northwestern Pakistan.

Ties to Pakistan
The Haqqani group is seen
as more closely tied to the Pakistani intelligence service than
the Quetta Shura, based in the
southwestern Pakistani province
of Baluchistan. But one Afghan
source, reflecting tension between the two governments, said
Pakistan’s insistence on a central
role in any negotiations has made
talks difficult even with the Quetta group. “They try to keep very
tight control,” this source said of
the Pakistanis.
Reports of the talks come amid
what Afghan, Arab and European sources said they see as a
distinct change of heart by the
Obama administration toward
full backing of negotiations. Although President Barack Obama
and his national security team
have long said the war would not
be won by military means alone,
sources said the administration
only recently appeared open to

talks rather than resisting them.
“We did not have consensus,
and there were some who thought
they could do it militarily,” said a
second European official. The Europeans said the American shift
began in the summer, as combat
intensified with smaller-than-expected NATO gains despite the
arrival of the full complement of
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negotiated settlement. “What it
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cases maybe even participating
in talking with the enemy,” the
first European official said. “If
you strip everything away, that’s
the deal here. For so long, politically, it’s been a deal breaker in
the United States, and with some
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Equipment tracks asteroids, communicates
with rovers and probes in the final frontier
By Kurt Streeter
Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Frequented
more by packs of stray burros
than by cars, the road is a lonely
one. Thirty-five miles north of
Barstow, Calif., 30 minutes from
the nearest highway, it ambles
through parched desert before
dropping into a low valley.
Here, where the pavement ends,
the great antenna rises.
“Only this isn’t just any ordinary antenna,” said Peter Hames,
an engineer who oversees the
massive structure for La Canada
Flintridge’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories. “It doesn’t get much fanfare, but this is one of the main
contributors to our understanding
of the solar system.”
Deep Space Station 14 — informally dubbed the Mars antenna

Negotiators
Continued from A1
Though the standoff required
a significant response, Bend Police Sgt. Dan Ritchie, one of the
two negotiators who talked with
Hipple, said it wasn’t an entirely
unusual situation.

Dozen incidents a year
On average, the negotiators
who work with the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team
— the tri-county SWAT team
— are called to about a dozen incidents a year. Many involve people who are armed and threatening to harm themselves or refusing to come out of a building or a
car without a struggle. In a few
cases, a suspect is holding someone hostage.
Frequently, the situation is fueled by drugs or alcohol, and
may be complicated by mental
illness.
Bend Police Lt. Paul Kansky,
who oversees the SWAT team,
said the seven negotiators who
respond to calls — five from the
Bend Police Department and
two from the Deschutes County
Sheriff’s Office — are a vital part
of any SWAT incident.
“They’re trained and have the
ability to talk to somebody, to
make sense of the things that
aren’t making sense,” Kansky
said. “Most of the time, if they’re
not able to gain complete compliance, then they are able to make
a real volatile situation more safe
than it was.”
Officers who want to become
negotiators have to go through a
selection process and intensive
training.
Ritchie said it’s rare that there’s
a spot on the team, as negotiators

Stem cells

Big and versatile
Despite its heft, it easily tilts and
twists as it tracks asteroids, rovers on distant planets, and probes
rocketing as far as 11 billion miles
away.
Tucked inside a federally owned
swath of the Mojave known as
Goldstone, the antenna is little
known outside JPL and NASA’s
Washington, D.C., headquarters.

No match
None can match Deep Space
Station 14 for its combination
of communications power and
historical significance, said Cornell astronomy professor Steven
Squyres, lead scientific investigator for the Mars Rover project.
The focus of the $5.6 million repair project, led by JPL and paid
for by NASA, has been on the guts
of the structure, an 80-foot-wide
ring of steel and cement known
as the hydrostatic bearing. It provides a foundation for the dish,
allowing it to spin on a horizontal
plane. Like a puck on slippery ice,
the dish rotates by sliding on a
thin coat of oil constantly pumped

tend to stick
with the job
for years. But
when there is
an opening, supervisors look
for officers who
have shown a
particular tal- Sgt. Scott
ent for interact- Herrmann
ing with people
on the street.
“A lot of times we hear people,
but we don’t really listen,” he
said.
Before they can start taking
calls, negotiators attend an intensive class organized by the
FBI. Back home, they participate in regular training sessions
with the SWAT team and meet
frequently with each other to review previous incidents and prepare for future situations.
The current team includes
a patrol supervisor, school resource officers, a detective, jail
staff and a member of the tricounty drug enforcement team.
Like the rest of the SWAT
team, the negotiators are on call
24 hours a day.
And each time, things are a bit
different.
In some cases, there’s time to
get background on the person
making threats and the negotiator can begin the conversation
with the basics: Who the person
is, where they live, if they suffer
from mental illness, if they’ve
been in jail.
Other times, it’s completely up
to the negotiator to quickly assess the situation, develop a rapport with the person, and figure
out what triggered the crisis.
Sgt. Scott Herrmann, who
works as a negotiator and at
the Deschutes County jail, said
it’s usually more about listening
than talking, especially at first.

“You basically try to become
their friend for a few minutes,”
he said. “At first they kind of
believe a lot of times that you’re
there just to beat them up, that
the guys outside in black are going to take them down and hurt
them, stuff like that. You have to
get them to trust you.”
When the subject of the call
is inside a building, the negotiator usually tries to reach them on
their phone. If there’s no phone
available, the SWAT team tosses in a phone attached to a long
cord. On major SWAT calls negotiators work in a vehicle where
they’re not distracted by everything else going on at the scene.
But it’s not always that simple.
Ritchie said he’s had to negotiate by bullhorn when he couldn’t
hear the person he was talking
to. He’s talked to people in their
cars, people in their homes and
in one case, stood next to a man
trying to jump off a highway
overpass.
Sometimes, things settle down
after a few minutes. Other situations, like the one at Greenwood
Manor, can go on for hours.

of injury or death,” and he issued
an injunction blocking federal
money for the research.
Since then, the field’s fate has
appeared to shift almost weekly
as the lawsuit wends its way
through the courts. Last week,
the government won the right
from an appeals court to continue financing the contested
research while it appeals the ruling. But there is no telling how
the appeals court will ultimately
rule, and Lamberth could issue a
revised injunction.
Many of the nation’s leading stem cell researchers do not
know whether they will receive
grants they won years earlier
through the standard competition or whether new projects
will even be considered. Junior
scientists like Spence, poised to
start their own laboratories, are
caught in limbo. Senior scientists like Wells are torn between
pursuing research they believe
in and protecting students from
staking their job prospects on
projects they may never be able
to complete.

The government can, however,
support subsequent research
on the cell lines created by that
process.
Last year, two scientists filed
the lawsuit, arguing that the distinction is a false one and that
the guidelines on public financing violated the Dickey-Wicker
amendment, first passed in 1996
and renewed by Congress every
year since.
Moreover, they said, it siphons
limited government resources
from research on different types
of stem cells, which they and
other scientists who share a discomfort with embryonic stem
cells view as ethically and scientifically superior. For all the hope
vested in them, human embryonic stem cells have yet to yield
tangible results for patients.
In his ruling, Lamberth agreed
the guidelines violated the 1996
amendment and “threaten the
very livelihood” of the plaintiffs.
Embryonic stem cell researchers who stand to lose their federal grants as a result argue
that other types of stem cells do
not have the same properties,
and that all need to be studied
regardless to determine which
work best. They bristle at the intrusion of judges and politicians
into decisions usually addressed
by the peer review process, in
which experts in a field comment on the merit of an idea and
the best get financed.
Yet even some who believe
there is a compelling scientific
rationale for their research agree
that the legal basis for federal financing may be weak.
“I was astonished that Congress hadn’t dealt with this,” said
Dr. Stephen Duncan, a stem cell
researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin, who stands
to lose several million dollars in
federal grants depending on the

Productivity reduced
The legal roller coaster is
raising stress levels and reducing productivity, researchers
say. Instead of tending to their
test tubes, they find themselves
guessing how each member of
the Supreme Court might vote on
the case. They are also watching
the midterm congressional elections with new interest — and
with some dismay, since many
believe that new legislation will
be required for their work to
continue.
Under guidelines authorized
by both the Bush and Obama
administrations, work that leads
directly to destroying the embryos cannot be federally financed.

Not as ‘action-packed’
as the movies
Bend Police Officer Kecia
Weaver, who serves as a school
resource officer at Mountain
View High School and a negotiator, said the actual work of negotiating is a little different than
people might imagine. Though
she said the tension can be very
real — especially when there’s a
hostage involved or a clear threat
to officers — negotiating often
means hours of quiet conversation with little progress.
“It’s not quite as action-packed
as in the movies,” she said.

on the bearing’s surface.
The remodel began with workers separating the dish from its
foundation, raising it and then
dropping it down onto three temporary, 40-foot-tall support legs.
That allowed crews on narrow
catwalks to take apart the bearing. Then they painstakingly
poured flatter, more durable cement and created a new metallic
surface for the oil.
NASA needs the antenna to be
operational by Nov. 1, in time to
communicate with an orbiter during its flyby of the comet Hartley
2, which will be between Earth
and Mars.
“The accuracy we’re having to
work with out here, that’s really
the biggest challenge,” Hames
said as he scaled a scaffolding
while performing an inspection.
Because the dish’s radio signals
are programmed to come from a
fixed point on Earth, the repairs
can’t alter the antenna’s size or location in any significant way.

Typically,
one
negotiator
serves as the key contact during the entire incident while a
second listens in on the conversation. The two exchange notes
and ideas about what to do or say
next.
But sometimes, when things
aren’t working out between a
negotiator and the person on the
other end of the phone, someone
else steps in.
Though many of the people
they’re dealing with aren’t behaving rationally, negotiators
said they’re usually able to get
things under control by reminding them of the people in their
lives who would miss them if
they died — and remind them
that they have the ability to end
the situation before things get
worse.
Since it was formed in the early 1980s, the tri-county SWAT
team has never killed a person
involved in a standoff.
But negotiation doesn’t always work. Ritchie recalled one
particularly tough call in 2008,
when a 17-year-old wanted on a
warrant for drug possession shot
at police and later shot himself
as officers watched.
Cases like that, he said, are
tough to deal with. But he said
the satisfaction of knowing that
he’s helped to resolve a dangerous situation without violence is
well worth it.
“I got in this business to help
people,” Ritchie said. “When
you get someone to walk out of
there and go to the hospital and
then you sit down with your cup
of coffee, waiting for the doctor
to tell you how they are. ... That’s
what this is about.”
Erin Golden can be
reached at 541-617-7837 or at
egolden@bendbulletin.com.

dispensation of the case. “It’s like
being a little pregnant. You’re either breaking the law or you’re
not.”
Bush, who in 2001 limited
federally financed researchers to working on roughly two
dozen stem cell lines already in
existence, twice vetoed legislation that would have explicitly
expressed support for financing
the contested research. No such
legislation has been introduced
under President Barack Obama,
but the administration expanded
the number of stem cell lines researchers could study.

Missed opportunity
Advocates of the research now
see this as a missed opportunity.
Efforts to rally congressional
support since Lamberth’s ruling
have failed to gain momentum
among Democrats and moderate Republicans heading into the
November elections.
For many, the most recent intrusion of politics into the vaunted scientific meritocracy came
as a particular shock because
the Obama administration’s new
guidelines had only months earlier fallen into place.
“The painful thing is that
we are being stopped at a time
when the velocity of this field of
research, thanks to the new administration, was finally going
at maximum speed,” said Ali
Brivanlou, a professor at Rockefeller University.
Over the past few weeks,
embryonic stem cell scientists
have sought alternative financing from private foundations,
university administrations and
state programs. But the National
Institutes of Health, which has a
$26 billion budget, is by far the
source with the deepest pockets
for academic scientists.

WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association has
endorsed incumbent Democrats in several crucial congressional races this year,
frustrating Republicans who
believe the group is hurting
its cause — and the party’s
chances in November.
Although the NRA’s agenda
usually aligns with that of the
GOP, the powerful group also
adheres to what it calls “an
incumbent-friendly” policy:
If an incumbent and a challenger candidate have equally
strong records protecting gun
rights, the incumbent gets the
endorsement, regardless of
party.
The result: Of the 20 most
endangered incumbent House
Democrats in the country
— based on race ratings by
The Washington Post’s “The
Fix” — 14 have received the
endorsement of the NRA’s Political Victory Fund.
The NRA’s bipartisan strategy has existed for several
years. But the stakes appear
higher this cycle, as control of
the House is in play and Democrats’ red-state gains in 2006
and 2008 mean the party has
a huge number of incumbents
running for reelection in conservative-leaning districts.
In South Dakota, Rep.
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D)
got the NRA’s endorsement
even though her opponent,
Kristi Noem (R), has made her
fondness for hunting a prominent part of her campaign.

Pelosi under fire
Noem campaign manager
Joshua Shields complained
that regardless of Herseth
Sandlin’s individual record
on gun issues, she would ultimately support Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., “one
of the most anti-gun speakers
Congress has ever had,”
“We made that argument to
the NRA,” Shields said. “Obviously it didn’t work.”
At a gathering of volunteers
for Robert Hurt’s (R) campaign in Charlottesville last
week, a concerned Hurt supporter asked the candidate
why the NRA nod went to his
opponent, endangered freshman Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Va.
Hurt admitted he was unhappy with the group’s decision.
“There is no more anti-Second Amendment vote than
a vote for Nancy Pelosi for
Speaker,” Hurt said.
Perriello and Herseth Sandlin both got “A” ratings from
the NRA but Pelosi got an “F,”
as did House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and
House Majority Whip James
Clyburn, D-S.C.
Pushing those leaders out

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of power could be seen as in the
NRA’s interest. Yet the NRA has
endorsed three of the four potentially vulnerable Democrats in
Virginia, backing Reps. Richard
Boucher and Glenn Nye as well
as Perriello. (Rep. Gerald Connolly, who represents a moderate district based in Fairfax and
Prince William counties, got an
“F” from the group.)
Rep. Betsy Markey (D) secured
the NRA nod in Colorado, as did
Rep. Harry Teague (D) in neighboring New Mexico. Endangered
Democratic Reps. Chet Edwards
(Tex.), Allen Boyd (Fla.), Earl
Pomeroy (N.D.), Debbie Halvorson (Ill.), Paul Kanjorski (Pa.) and
John Boccieri (Ohio) also earned
the group’s seal of approval.

Non-partisan
NRA spokesman Andrew
Arulanandam said that as a nonpartisan organization, his group
simply does not take party affiliation — or votes for speaker of the
House — into account.
In most of these contests, he
noted, the seat ultimately will be
held by a gun-rights supporter
regardless of whether the incumbent or the challenger wins in
November. “We are, frankly, in a
very good and enviable position,”
Arulanandam said.
Having clout with the majority party has been useful for the
NRA. In early 2009, U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder made news
by suggesting the Obama administration might try to reinstitute a
ban on the sale of assault weapons. Backed by the NRA, several
dozen House Democrats quickly
sent Holder a letter emphasizing
their opposition to such a move,
and the idea never resurfaced.
“If it hadn’t been for those 60
House Democrats ... things would
have turned out very differently,”
Arulanandam said.
Overall, the NRA still has endorsed many more House Republican incumbents than Democrats, and the cash has followed.
The group’s political action committee has doled out $350,000 so
far this cycle to Republicans and
$170,000 to Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive
Politics.
On the legislative front, Republican leaders have already
learned this year that their agenda and that of the NRA don’t always match.
In June, Democrats revised a
high-profile campaign finance
bill — the Disclose Act — to carve
out an exemption for the NRA after the gun-rights group protested
against the legislation’s requirement that it disclose information
about its donors.

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Only a year after the Obama
administration lifted some of
the limits imposed by President
George W. Bush, a lawsuit challenging the use of public money
for the research and a conservative shift in Congress could
leave the field more sharply restricted than it has been since its
inception a decade ago. At stake
are about 1,300 jobs, as well as
grants from the National Institutes of Health that this year total more than $200 million and
support more than 200 projects.
The turn of events has introduced what researchers say is
an unprecedented uncertainty
to a realm of academic science
normally governed by the laws
of nature and the rules of peer
review.
“We’re used people telling us,
‘That was a stupid idea, we’re
not going to fund it,’ and we
turn around and think of a better one,” said Dr. James Wells,
who heads the laboratory where
Spence has a postdoctoral position. “But there’s nothing we can
do about this.”
The stem cells, which are
thought to have curative potential for many diseases because
they can be turned into any kind
of tissue in the human body, can
be obtained only by destroying
a human embryo, which many
Americans believe is the equivalent of a life.
In August, Chief Judge Royce
Lamberth of the U.S. District
Court in Washington, D.C., found
that the Obama administration’s
policy violates a law barring federal financing for “research in
which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded
or knowingly subjected to risk

because its initial task, in 1966,
was to track a spacecraft after it
flew past Mars — spreads from
the ground like a looming, 10-story poppy. Its most eye-catching element is its parabolic dish, which
stretches nearly the length of a
football field and weighs — struts
and radio equipment included
— nearly 2,000 tons.

Yet there are few larger antennas in the world, and those that
have more size, said Hames, have
less ability: Either they are fixed
in the ground and unable to rotate
fully, or they can’t both send and
receive data.

NRA is throwing
support behind
Dems in key races

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A4 Thursday, October 7, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

C OV ER S T OR I ES

Budget
Continued from A1
Dudley’s plan won’t merely cut
the budget hole. In some areas, it
could add to it. Dudley wants to
cut the state’s capital gains tax
from 11 percent to 3 percent for
two years, then 5 percent. The
change will cost the state more
than $400 million over the next
two years, but Dudley says it is
necessary to spur business for
the long term. He also hopes to
provide scholarships to state
universities and partial scholarships to private universities for
all Oregon high school graduates who achieve certain grades,
though the plan doesn’t yet have
a price tag.
Kitzhaber, the former emergency room physician and governor, also wants to tackle state
employee health care and retirement costs, though he is less specific about how much he wants
to cut. Like Dudley, he plans to
look at how the state crafts its
budgets; he also wants to look at
ways to consolidate government
and curb costs. He wants cut
prison sentences for some convicts to reduce prison spending.
Like Dudley, however, some
of Kitzhaber’s ideas have a price
tag rather than making cuts.
For instance, he wants to create
jobs by issuing bonds to pay for
weatherization projects, bonds
that would be paid back through
energy savings. The plan would
cost an estimated $100,000 per
job, though Kitzhaber has not
said how much he would spend
on it.

No specific cuts
Neither Dudley nor Kitzhaber’s plans offer specific cuts
that will close more than a fraction of the $3 billion hole in the
state’s projected general fund
budget. The general fund is that
portion of the state budget that
is most easily modified by the
governor and lawmakers; it is
based on personal and corporate
income taxes rather than fees or
federal funds.
Jody Wiser, of the group Tax
Fairness Oregon, says that’s not
surprising, since the more that
candidates talk specifics, the easier it is for them to be attacked.
“I think that in the best of all
worlds candidates would talk
specific issues but that’s not the
way candidates run for office,”
she said.
Lunch has another reason for
the lack of specifics: “You can put
an audience to sleep very quickly
trying to talk about the details of
public finance.”
Besides the lack of details,
Lunch said that neither candidate has fully grappled with the
reality that nearly half the state’s
general fund budget goes to fund

Waivers
Continued from A1
At a time when the midterm
elections are looming and Republicans have been vocal in campaigning against the law, reaction
to the rollout has been closely
watched.
To date, the administration has
given about 30 insurers, employers and union plans, responsible
for covering about 1 million people, one-year waivers on the new
rules that phase out annual limits
on coverage for limited-benefit
plans, also known as “mini-meds.”
Applicants said their premiums
would increase significantly, in
some cases doubling or more.
These early exemptions offer
the first signs of how the administration may tackle an even more
difficult hurdle: the resistance
from insurers and others against
proposed regulations that will determine how much insurers spend
on consumers’ health care versus
administrative overhead, a major
cornerstone of the law.

Child coverage
Several leading insurers, including WellPoint, Aetna and
Cigna, have also objected to new
rules requiring them to cover
even those children who are seriously ill, warning that they will
stop selling new policies in some
states because the rules do not
protect them from having to cover
too many sick children.
“The hardest part of health
reform is always going to be the
transition,” said Peter Harbage, a
former state health official who is
a policy consultant in Sacramento, Calif.
He predicts more insurers and
employers will lean on the government to delay or weaken the
new regulations.
“I think this pressure just increases until we get to 2014,” he
said, referring to the year that the
law will fully go into effect.
The waivers issued so far include the policies offered by

K-12 schools whose spending
and employee contracts are under the control of locally elected
school boards.
While Dudley says he’s open
to the idea of statewide collective
bargaining for teachers, he isn’t
actively pursuing it. Kitzhaber,
for his part, says he’ll try to
benchmark local school district
contracts to the state budget, but
says statewide collective bargaining isn’t necessary.
By not more aggressively talking about the need to exert more
control over school spending,
“Both Dudley and Kitzhaber and
the people who are speaking for
them are to greater or lesser degrees blowing smoke on these issues,” Lunch said.

Negotiating position
A second major question
comes down to whether Dudley or Kitzhaber would be in a
better position to negotiate for
concessions from public employee unions to help balance the
budget.
Dudley supporters make the
argument that because his opponent is supported by public employee unions — for instance, the
American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees has given Kitzhaber $100,000
for his campaign — Kitzhaber is
less likely to take a hard line with
those same unions.
Kitzhaber, meanwhile, argues
that because he has better relations with the unions than Dudley does, the Democrat is in a
better position to work together
to tackle the state’s budget woes.
He notes that he is the only candidate in the race who has had
state employees strike against
him, and notes that he signed
legislation opposed by unions
that changed the collective bargaining process.
Ed Hershey, a spokesman for
the Service Employees International Union, which is supporting Kitzhaber, says his union
won’t roll over for anybody. “No
matter who is on the other side of
the table ... we’re going to try to
do the best we can.”
However, he said that his members would look more kindly on
a governor who is not “singling
them out” for disproportionate
cuts, and “our members feel that
notwithstanding his protestations, Dudley has put a target
on our backs very unfairly and
unwisely.”
History shows that taking on
unions can bring a political price.
In 2008, SEIU gave John Kroger
more than $300,000 in the Democratic primary for Attorney
General, a move widely seen as
payback to Kroger’s opponent,
former Rep. Greg Macpherson,
D-Lake Oswego, for shepherding through PERS reforms in the
2003 Legislature.

McDonald’s to its fast-food workers, typically capped at just a few
thousand dollars, sold by a profitmaking company owned by Blue
Cross and Blue Shield plans. As
a result of the administration’s
efforts, McDonald’s says it is
“confident that we’ll continue to
provide health care coverage
for our 30,000 hourly restaurant
employees.”
Aetna and Cigna have also received waivers to continue selling
limited-benefit policies, according
to the list released by the Department of Health and Human Services, as have small employers
like Sanderson Plumbing Products and Guy Lee Manufacturing. HealthMarkets, which offers
policies through MEGA Life and
Health and other insurers, says it
also plans to apply for a waiver for
some of its plans.

Some seek more
federal authority
Some states, like Iowa and
Maine, have already said they
might seek additional authority
from federal officials to exempt
some insurers, at least for a time,
because of the potential disruption if carriers leave the market
over the new standards on medical spending.
“We have some very small carriers in the state,” said Susan Voss,
the Iowa insurance commissioner,
who said she favored letting state
regulators decide whether some
carriers should be given more
leeway.
The state has already lost some
carriers, including the Principal Financial Group, which announced its decision last week.
The struggle to stop insurers
from dropping child-only coverage illustrates the limited power
that the administration, and some
states, may have to pressure companies to participate. While federal officials have tried to address
the concerns by insurers that the
rules allow parents to wait until
their children are sick to sign up,
some insurers have remained reluctant to commit to the market.

Despite that, Dudley supporters acknowledge that Kitzhaber’s argument makes a certain amount of sense.
Rep. Dennis Richardson, RCentral Point, said, “It’s his best
argument, because there are
times when a Democrat would
be able to get something through
that a Republican would have a
difficult time getting through.”
Richardson nevertheless said
he is supporting a Dudley administration, in part because
Kitzhaber didn’t do enough to
cut the budget in his earlier stint.
On the question of taxes, both
candidates are similar in saying they won’t seek to repeal
Measures 66 and 67, the corporate and personal income tax
increases approved by voters in
January. Both say they will seek
to make changes to deal with
the most business-unfriendly
aspects of the tax hikes, and incorporate those changes with
broader tax reform.
Tim Duy, a University of Oregon economist who tracks the
Central Oregon economy, says
the question he has of Dudley
and Kitzhaber is “to what degree
they’re willing to embrace as
Governor (Ted) Kulongoski describes it, a ‘reset’ of the budget
in its entirety.”

‘Reset Cabinet’
Duy refers to the report issued
by Kulongoski’s “Reset Cabinet”
over the summer. It called for reorganizing state government and
tackling employee compensation
issues.
Dudley had said he supports
many of the recommendations–
particularly ones that involve
restricting employee compensation and benefits — and would
consider others, though not the
sentencing modifications that
Kulongoski says are crucial.
Kitzhaber also agrees with or
echoes many of the recommendations — including long-term
budgeting, consolidating government and saving money on prison costs by modifying the state’s
sentencing laws. But he doesn’t
agree with Kulongoski that
statewide collective bargaining
for teachers is crucial.
Duy says he hasn’t seen
enough details from either candidate about how they will close
the more than $3 billion budget
hole.
“Within the context of that
deficit, there is not much room,
or any room, for new spending,
new programs, or tax cuts,” he
said. “I see this issue as critical,
and I’m not sure either candidate
has provided me with enough information. That’s what I’ve been
looking for.”
Nick Budnick can be reached
at or at nbudnick@bendbulletin.
com.

While states like California can
force their hands by passing legislation requiring any insurer who
plans to sell policies in the new
exchanges to also sell child-only
policies, other states have little
recourse other than to try to persuade insurers to stay.

Child-only policies
In Washington state, for example, Regence BlueShield, a major
insurer, has announced it plans to
no longer sell child-only policies,
and Mike Kreidler, the insurance
commissioner, is trying to persuade the other major insurers
to stay. He cannot force them, he
said, under current state law.
“I couldn’t do anything other
than use the bully pulpit,” said
Kreidler, who was optimistic he
had succeeded.
And politics surrounding the
health care law may intrude. In
Minnesota, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a
Republican and a potential 2012
presidential candidate who has
long opposed the law, has become
the target of accusations that he
is stonewalling discussions over
certain types of coverage. (He has
already refused federal money for
rate reviews and to set up the 2014
exchanges.)
“We are seriously disappointed
that we appear to have hit a wall,”
said Julie Brunner, executive director of the Minnesota Council
of Health Plans, which represents
the state’s insurers.
The insurers had been meeting
with regulators to hash out the
child-only coverage policies.
Pawlenty’s office, however, said
it had no knowledge that negotiations over children’s insurance
had been halted, and a spokesman, Bruce Gordon, denied that
the governor had played any
role in ending the talks. He said,
however, the request by the insurers for a standardized period in
which parents can buy coverage
was unwarranted:
“The insurance companies’ request for an exemption,” he said,
“is yet another example of the
failings of Obamacare.”

RALEIGH, N.C. — Staff Sgt.
Robert Miller, the Fort Bragg,
N.C.-based Special Forces soldier who posthumously received
the Medal of Honor on Wednesday, really enjoyed going to
Afghanistan.
Of the photos from Miller’s
deployments to the country, the
most telling may be the one of
him in casual clothes, wearing an
Afghan scarf and an Army cap,
riding a villager’s white horse.
He is smiling, at ease in the
saddle and at the intersection of
two worlds.
“He liked the people there,
and he loved the countryside,”
his father, Phil Miller, said in an
interview. “He marveled at what
a great ski resort they could have

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It also had the chance of getting up to $25 million in green
energy tax credits, loans and
grants to help offset the cost.
But in August all that changed
with a new financial analysis.
The cost increased to $73 million. The $1.7 million in revenue dropped to $700,000. And
the green energy incentives
all but disappeared.
This spurred Councilor Jeff
Eager to ask in August for a
re-evaluation of the cost of
switching to an all-groundwater system to see if it would be
cheaper for ratepayers, and to
see if it would be feasible to
accomplish under current water rights law. Bend gets about
half of its annual water supply from groundwater.
A study released Friday by
HDR Engineering Inc., which
is the company the city hired
to work on the Bridge Creek
project, found that if the city
wanted to make the switch
to groundwater it would cost
hundreds of millions of dollars more over a 50-year period due in large part to energy costs. It also found the
groundwater option would

up in the mountains if people
would just stop shooting at each
other.”
Miller didn’t live to see whether the country will achieve peace;
he was killed Jan. 25, 2008. His
actions that day helped save his
fellow Green Berets and 15 Afghan National Army soldiers.
On Wednesday, Miller received
the nation’s highest military
award. President Barack Obama
presented the Medal of Honor to
Miller’s family at a ceremony at
the White House.
Miller was leading Afghan
security forces and other coalition soldiers on a patrol near the
Pakistan border when they were
attacked by Taliban insurgents.
A teammate called for an air
attack, and a bomb dropped on
the hideout halted fighting on

have an initial cost of nearly $60
million just to drill more wells
and upgrade other components
of the city’s infrastructure.
Getting water rights to pump
more groundwater could also
prove difficult for the city. According to a water rights attorney the city hired to study the issue, there are a number of tricky
scenarios for doing so, including
having to get some changes in
state law.
“The bottom line is it is trading
certainty ... for uncertainty, in
the fact that the regulatory environment for getting new groundwater rights is very dicey,” said
Rick Glick, of Davis, Wright,
Tremaine LLP, of Portland. “Trying to get to an all-groundwater
system is pretty speculative and
involves a lot of risks.”
City Manager Eric King said
during Wednesday’s presentation that he wants councilors
to decide at a Nov. 3 meeting if
they want to continue pursuing
an upgrade to the Bridge Creek
system or switch to all ground-

the ground. But as the patrol approached to check for survivors,
insurgents opened fire.
Miller’s team captain was
wounded. Miller went forward
and provided cover fire with a
machine gun and grenades, calling out enemy positions while
the injured captain was moved to
safety.
There were 100 or more insurgents, the Army says, and Miller’s teammates had to scramble.
After they reached cover and
returned fire, Miller tried to join
them but got hit.
He kept firing and calling out
enemy positions. He fought for
another 25 to 30 minutes after he
went down, Army officials say.
When his teammates got to
him, Miller was dead. He was
still holding his weapon.

water. If councilors choose to
reinvest in the Bridge Creek
system they will have several
options for how to do so, each
one with a different impact on
ratepayers.
These options include picking a water treatment method to
comply with federal clean-water
mandates that require municipalities to treat for harmful bacteria and microorganisms like
Cryptosporidium, and choosing
whether to add a $13 million hydropower plant at the outset of
the project.
Depending on which options
councilors choose, Bend water
customers could see rate increases of between 37.5 and 45.5 percent over the next five years.
King said a decision on the
treatment option is scheduled for
Nov. 17, and the choice of whether to move ahead with a hydropower plant would be Dec. 1.
Nick Grube can be
reached at 541-633-2160 or at
ngrube@bendbulletin.com.

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Reports fault
White House
on oil spill
response
By John M. Broder
New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — The
Obama administration failed
to act upon or fully inform
the public of its own worstcase estimates of the amount
of oil gushing from the
blown-out BP well, according to preliminary reports
from the staff of the presidential commission investigating the accident.
The government underestimated how much oil was
flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and how much was left
after the well was capped in
July, leading to a loss of faith
in the government’s ability
to handle the spill and a continuing breach between the
federal authorities and state
and local officials, the commission staff members found
in a series of four reports issued Wednesday.
The White House responded to the assertions on
Wednesday, saying it never
concealed its most dire estimates of the spill and quickly threw everything the government had at the problem.
The four reports, from the
staff of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore
Drilling, make clear that the
president-appointed
panel
does not intend to spare the
administration as it prepares
a final report on the accident
to be delivered to the White
House early next year.
It has not yet completed
its work on the causes of the
well explosion or the efforts
to contain the oil, but the tenor of Wednesday’s reports
indicates that White House,
Cabinet
officers,
Coast
Guard commanders and
senior government scientists
will shoulder a fair amount
of blame for the response to
the accident.

Judge bars key U.S. witness in terror trial
By Benjamin Weiser
New York Times News Service

NEW YORK — A federal judge
has barred prosecutors from using a crucial witness in the first
trial of a former Guantanamo detainee, reigniting a fierce debate
over whether the government
can successfully prosecute terrorist detainees in civilian court.
The trial of Ahmed Khalfan

Ghailani, who faces charges in
the 1998 bombings of two U.S.
embassies in East Africa, has
been seen as a test of President
Barack Obama’s goal of moving
many other detainees, like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, into federal court and, ultimately, closing Guantanamo.
In the months since Ghailani
was brought to New York from

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Judge
Lewis Kaplan of U.S. District
Court in Manhattan has rejected
defense requests to dismiss the
case because of violations of
Ghailani’s right to a speedy trial
and because of accusations he
was tortured.
But just as the trial was to begin Wednesday, Kaplan ruled
that he would not allow the wit-

ness to testify. He noted that the
government had acknowledged
that it had identified and located
the witness through interrogation of Ghailani when he was
earlier held in a secret overseas
jail run by the CIA. His lawyers
have said he was tortured there.
Kaplan said he was “acutely
aware of the perilous nature of
the world in which we live.”

Hungarian towns
begin cleanup of
toxic red sludge

GUNMEN TORCH TANKER TRUCKS IN PAKISTAN

By Elisabeth Rosenthal
New York Times News Service

New York Times News Service

Three scientists shared this
year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing techniques
to synthesize complex carbon
molecules that have had an enormous impact on the manufacture
of medicines and other products,
the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences said Wednesday.
The winners are Richard Heck,
79, a retired University of Delaware professor now living in the
Philippines; Ei-ichi Negishi, 75,
a chemistry professor at Purdue
University; and Akira Suzuki,
80, a professor at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the
three scientists, who will split

KOLONTAR, Hungary — Just before he raced
for refuge in the attic of his family’s home here
Monday at lunchtime, Krisztian Holczer called his
mother at her job at a school near here.
A wave of caustic red sludge had just poured in
over the back fence and was descending rapidly
over the backyard. Holczer, 34, escaped with burns
on his feet from the dangerous muck.
The origin of the liquid was a nearby sludge reservoir holding the leftovers of the process that converts bauxite to aluminum. Just after noon Monday,
a corner of the sludge reservoir broke.
Residents here are still waiting for officials to
release their analysis of the sludge’s chemical
content. A dangerous pollutant at best because of
its corrosive nature, red mud from the aluminum
production process can contain heavy metals and
low-level radioactivity, ingredients that can cause
health problems like cancer, and it in the long-term
it can contaminate the environment.
The sludge poured into local streams and is moving downstream at about 1 mph. It is headed for
the Raba River, which empties into the Danube. It
has already killed all the life in the local rivers and
streams but now threatens a broad international
environmental disaster if high concentrations of
the sludge get downstream.
So far the damage is limited to Hungary, which
has not asked the European Union for assistance in
responding to the catastrophe.
The broken wall of the sludge pond has been repaired, but the cleanup has just started. Hungary’s
top investigative agency is looking into the spill. A
case has been opened to consider possible criminal
negligence.

Mohammad Sajjad / The Associated Press

Dozens of tanker trucks carrying fuel to Afghanistan
for NATO troops were torched near Quetta in western
Pakistan on Wednesday, the third major attack on
supplies since Pakistan closed a border crossing to
Afghanistan a week ago and the first at the only checkpoint that remained open.
At least one person was killed in the Quetta torchings
after three carloads of gunmen fired at the tankers and
then burned them, the police said.
“According to eyewitnesses and initial reports some
terrorists came on vehicles a few minutes before morning prayer and started firing and then burned some of
the tankers,” said Hamid Shakeel, the deputy inspector

general of the Quetta police.
About 40 tanker trucks were at the terminal, and
about half were saved from the attack, Shakeel said.
Hours after the attack on the trucks at Quetta, Taliban
militants claimed responsibility, according to reports on
Pakistani television channels.
In a sign that the government was continuing to distance itself from the attacks, the police chief in Quetta,
Malik Muhammad Iqbal, said it was not the responsibility of the government to provide security for the convoys.
In the past few days, senior police officers have said the
safety of the trucks lay with the fleet owners who had
signed contracts with NATO.

3 earn Nobel for work on carbon catalyst
By Kenneth Chang

“But the Constitution is the
rock upon which our nation
rests,” he went on. “We must follow it not only when it is convenient, but when fear and danger
beckon in a different direction.
To do less would diminish us and
undermine the foundation upon
which we stand.”
The judge delayed the trial’s
opening until Tuesday.

the $1.4 million prize, each independently made advances in
using the metal palladium as a
catalyst to link together carbon
molecules into larger, more complicated structures.

Anti-cancer drug
The academy highlighted discodermolide, a substance isolated from a marine sponge in the
Caribbean that shows promise
as an anti-cancer drug. It would
be impossible to harvest large
quantities of discodermolide.
But with the help of the palladium techniques, scientists are
now able to make it from scratch,
enough to start clinical testing.
The reactions are also used to

produce compounds used in fungicides, sunscreen and organic
light-emitting diodes.
“They are used almost continually by every major pharmaceutical company on a daily basis, from drug discovery through
manufacturing,” said Stephen L.
Buchwald, a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. “They basically
revolutionized the industry.”
The reactions are not only versatile, but “they also accomplish
bond formations that are very
difficult to do using any traditional methods,” Buchwald said.
Drugs, plastics and many other industrial chemicals consist of
large carbon-based molecules.
However, getting one carbon

atom to bind to another is often
not an easy task. Nearly a century ago, a French chemist named
Victor Grignard found that coupling a magnesium atom to a
carbon atom pushed additional
electrons to the carbon atom,
making it easier to bond with another carbon atom.
That method worked but not
always perfectly, sometimes
producing too many unwanted
byproducts.
In 1968, Heck, working at Hercules Inc. in Wilmington, Del.,
reported new chemical reactions
that used palladium as the key
ingredient for shepherding carbons together, but drawbacks included the need for an expensive
palladium salt.

BILL CLINTON VISITS HAITI

Ramon Espinosa / The Associated Press

Former President Bill Clinton, U.N. special envoy to Haiti, arrives in Haiti on Wednesday to visit people who were displaced
by the earthquake at the Petionville Golf Club that is being used
as a camp for the displaced in Port-au-Prince.

B U S I N E SS
IN BRIEF
Local tourism sector
up again in August
Bend and unincorporated
Deschutes County reported
higher room-tax collections in
August, according to a report
Wednesday from Visit Bend,
the city’s tourism-promotion
agency.
For Bend, the 15.4 percent
gain in collections over August
2009 was the ninth straight
month of higher year-over-year
numbers. The county’s 0.3 percent uptick in August was the
third straight month of improvement. Since the fiscal year
started July 1, collections are
up 13.7 percent in Bend and 4
percent in the county.
“The impressive (year-overyear) increase in August (roomtax) collections was the result
of multiple contributing factors,”
Visit Bend President and CEO
Doug La Placa wrote in an email. “In addition to rebounding
occupancy with both leisure
and business travelers, we are
seeing a gradual strengthening
of rate integrity across multiple
lodging segments. This is very
good news.”
Room-tax collections are
considered a key measure of
activity in the tourism industry.

Bend WineStyles
closing doors Oct. 15
The owners of Bend’s WineStyles, which offered wine tastings and sold bottled wines,
are closing the store Oct. 15
because the recession slowed
business. Jerry and Peggy
West moved the store to a
small building on Northwest
Galveston Avenue during the
summer from a location near
Central Oregon Community
College in hopes of boosting
sales.
“We’ve seen a lot of new
business, just not enough to
keep us open,” Jerry West said
Wednesday.
The store will be open 2 p.m.
to 8 p.m. Monday to Friday
through Oct. 15. Wine Club
members have until then to
pick up outstanding wine from
October or previous months.

Facebook launches
‘Groups’ feature

FORECLOSURE

Notices of default
up from last year
Deschutes has 3,031 so far this year; there were 221 in all of ’06
crease over the first nine months
of 2009, when 2,687 notices were
filed.
But much of the year-to-date
growth took place in the beginning of this year. Filings in January and February increased by
about 55 percent and 33 percent, respectively, over the same
months in 2009.
The number of notices filed in
July decreased about 6 percent
from filings in July 2009, and
August default filings increased

By Tim Doran
The Bulletin

For the first nine months of
the year, the number of initial
foreclosure notices filed in Deschutes County continued to outpace 2009, although filings have
leveled off in recent months.
From January through September, 3,031 notices of default
were filed with the Deschutes
County Clerk’s Office, according to its electronic recordings
system. That’s a 12.8 percent in-

less than 1 percent over the number filed in August 2009. However, default filings last month
increased about 15 percent over
September 2009.
Deschutes County property
owners have suffered immensely with the collapse of the real
estate market, driving foreclosures to record levels. In 2006,
Deschutes County recorded 221
notices of default — for the entire
year.
See Default / B5

Deschutes County notices of default: 2007-10
By month

2007

2008

2009

2010

402

400

362

318

326

347

356

314

308

298

300

320
261

100

0
February

March

April

May

June

July

August

By quarter

September October November December

By year

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$23.020
SILVER CLOSE
CHANGE +$0.306

Bend startup
secures $1.2M
in investments
Clear Catheter, the 2006 winner
of the Bend Venture Conference,
will use funding for clinical launch
By Ed Merriman
The Bulletin

A Bend company’s innovative catheter designed
not to clog after heart and lung surgery is a step
closer to reaching hospitals and patients with $1.2
million in equity financing from the Oregon Angel
Fund and other investors.
Ed Boyle, a Bend surgeon and CEO of Clear
Catheter Systems, said the $1.2 million will support the clinical launch of the company’s PleuraFlow Active Tube Clearance System. The device,
inserted in the thoracic cavity after heart and lung
surgery to drain fluids and materials, has a mechanism to keep it from clogging.
Ruth Lindley, marketing manager at Economic
Development for Central Oregon and the Bend Venture Conference, said Boyle, inventor of the technology and co-founder of Clear Catheter, won the
conference in 2006 and, as has been the case with
all conference winners, the prize money helped the
company go on to win larger investments.
See Catheter / B5

Company made
false tax relief
claims, FTC says
By Edward Wyatt

1,200

1,090
1,000

952

New York Times News Service

3,507
978

3,031

827

800

623

600

1,925

400

320
235

200

589

88
0
Q1 Q2

Q3 Q4

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Q1 Q2 Q3

2008

2009

2010

2007
Source: Deschutes County Clerk’s Office

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Facebook on Wednesday introduced a feature that allows
users to interact with small
groups of people, like their
family, high school friends or
colleagues.
The move is an effort to address a longstanding problem:
Facebook friends often span
a broad range of relationships
that include relatives, classmates, casual professional
acquaintances or jogging
partners — and not everyone
wants all of them to see his or
her information.
With the new feature, called
Groups, Facebook hopes to
encourage users to upload
more photos, videos and other
information to the site while
giving them new ways to control who sees what.
— From staff
and wire reports

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239

200

January

B

2007

2008

2009

2010
(through
September)

WASHINGTON — Who would not like to settle
with the Internal Revenue Service for pennies on
the dollar?
In recent years, some 20,000 people have turned
to American Tax Relief of Beverly Hills, Calif., to do
just that after seeing the company’s advertisements
on television, the Internet or in print, where actors
portraying clients say the company reduced their
back taxes to say, $2,000 from $24,000 or $40,000
from $200,000.
But the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that despite collecting $60 million to $100 million in upfront fees from often-desperate clients in
recent years, American Tax Relief rarely, if ever,
delivered on its promises.
It did, however, according to the FTC, deliver $30
million in customers’ funds to the accounts of the
company’s owners or their relatives.
See Tax relief / B5

Greg Cross / The Bulletin

Oregon mostly unaffected by spate
of foreclosure documentation reviews
By David Holley
The Bulletin

As officials in other parts of
the country investigate whether
lenders made misstatements
about home foreclosures, Oregon remains mostly unaffected
because home loan foreclosures
here are primarily filed outside
the court system.
But there still could be errors
in nonjudicial home foreclosure
documentation in Oregon. If
homeowners facing foreclosure
find the errors — technical viola-

tions like the bank not publishing
public notices on time or printing
inaccurate numbers — lenders
likely would have to fix the errors and restart the foreclosure
process, thus giving homeowners more time to try to avoid default, local attorneys said.
Bend attorney Laura Cooper,
who drafts loan documents and
represents borrowers seeking
loan modifications, said she
hasn’t seen many homeowners make claims about technical violations by lenders.

But a rush could still come, she
said.
“I’m wondering if it’s the other
shoe that has yet to fall,” said
Cooper, who is with Ball Janik
LLP.
News broke last month that
large lenders, such as GMAC
Mortgage and JPMorgan Chase,
have begun halting foreclosures
and evictions in 23 states where
concerns have risen that the
banks potentially filed faulty
foreclosure documents in court.
See Documents / B5

A.J. Mast / New York Times News Service

At Hi-Grade Egg Farm in North Manchester, Ind.,
precautions are taken to ensure that hens and
eggs are free of salmonella.

NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. — The stuff
doesn’t even smell that bad.
In Henhouse No.1 at the Hi-Grade Egg Farm here,
the droppings from 381,000 chickens are carried off
along a zig-zagging system of stacked conveyor
belts with powerful fans blowing across them.
The excrement takes three days to travel more
than a mile back and forth, and when it is finally
deposited on a gray, 20-foot high mountain of manure, it has been thoroughly dried out, making it
of little interest to the flies and rodents that can
spread diseases like salmonella poisoning.
Controlling manure and keeping henhouses
clean is essential to combating the toxic strain of
salmonella that sickened thousands of people this
year and prompted the recall of more than half a
billion eggs produced by two companies in Iowa.
See Farm / B2

WASHINGTON — Liz Szalay
said she was shocked when she saw
her 14-year-old son’s phone bill. Because he didn’t have a $30 data plan
as part of his Verizon Wireless contract, he’d run up charges of $2,000
over two months for downloading
songs.

“I would never have allowed my
son to accrue such charges, if I had
known,” said Szalay, a secretary in
Niles, Mich., who said she withdrew
money from her 401(k) retirement
plan to cover the expense. “What I
did to prevent this from happening
in the future was have his Internet
access completely blocked by Verizon, but not before they made off

with a boatload of money.”
The Federal Communications
Commission may make it mandatory for carriers to warn customers
before they get hit with high bills.
Next week, the agency will consider requiring companies to alert customers when they approach limits
on their contracts.
See Bills / B5

C OV ER S T ORY

B2 Thursday, October 7, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

Owners of msnbc.com may alter FTC seeks to tighten
name to distance it from channel rules for ‘green’ labeling
By Tanza Vega
By Brian Stelter
New York Times News Service

NBC Universal and Microsoft, the parents of msnbc.com,
are holding high-level talks
about changing its name, an
unusual and potentially risky
endeavor for the third-most
popular news website in the
United States.
The two parents have not yet
agreed on what to call the site.
But according to internal memorandums obtained by The
New York Times this week, the
parents have concluded that the
brand known as msnbc.com, a
strictly objective news site, is
widely confused with MSNBC,
the cable television channel
that has taken a strongly liberal
bent in recent years.
Charlie Tillinghast, the president of msnbc.com, wrote in one
of the memos, “Both strategies

NBC in the past. “And those two
brands, each strong in their respective areas, are increasingly
standing for different things.”
Corporations change their
names from time to time (Andersen Consulting became Accenture, Philip Morris became
Altria, Blackwater became Xe)
but giving up a Web address as
popular as msnbc.com is highly
unusual. It is akin to a business closing a bustling storefront and posting a sign that
asks customers to visit its new
location.
For a website, at least, the new
location is only a click away.
“You can quickly redirect
people who might be confused,”
Heyward said.
Nonetheless,
msnbc.com
risks sacrificing years of brand
loyalty by coining a new Web
address.

“Both strategies are fine, but naming them the
same thing is brand insanity.”
— From a memo written by Charlie Tillinghast,
president of msnbc.com
are fine, but naming them the
same thing is brand insanity.”
The channel and website are
already separate companies.
Under the current plan, the
msnbc.com Web address would
become a site exclusively for
the cable channel, fulfilling
the channel’s desire to have an
independent site to promote its
TV programs.
The existing news site, called
the “blue site” internally, would
move to a new and as-yet-undetermined Web address. There is
a subsection on msnbc.com for
the cable channel.

The websites under the msnbc.com umbrella are visited by
almost 50 million Internet users
each month, according to the
measurement firm comScore.
Only two news brands, Yahoo
and CNN.com, are bigger.
Andrew Heyward, a former
CBS News president and an
adviser to media companies on
digital strategy, said the renaming idea had merit.
“It’s incredibly important
in this media cacophony for
brands to be consistent, for
brands to stand for something,”
said Heyward, who has advised

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — Manufacturers of products that claim
to be environmentally friendly
will face tighter rules on how
they are advertised to consumers under changes proposed
Wednesday by the Federal Trade
Commission.
The commission’s revised
“Green Guides,” last updated in
1998, warn marketers against
using labels that make broad
claims that cannot be substantiated, like “eco-friendly.” Marketers must qualify their claims on
the product packaging and limit
them to a specific benefit, such
as how much of the product is
recycled.
“This is really about trying to
cut through the confusion that
consumers have when they are
buying a product and that businesses have when they are sell-

ing a product,” said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.
The revisions come at a time
when green marketing is on the
rise. According to a new study
by the TerraChoice Group, now
part of the Underwriters Laboratories, the number of advertisements with green messages in
mainstream magazines has risen
since 1987, and peaked in 2008 at
10.4 percent. In 2009, the number
of ads dropped to 9 percent.
But while the number of advertisements may have dipped,
there has been a “proliferation”
of eco-labeling, according to
Scott McDougall, the president
of TerraChoice. The new rules
call on seals and certifications
that connote general environmental claims to be more specific. A company would have to use
a label like “Green Smart, Recyclable Certified” instead of just
“Green Smart,” for example.

Farm
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The Hi-Grade facility appeared
very different from the descriptions released by federal investigators of the Iowa farms that produced the recalled eggs. Those
farms, most of them owned by
Austin DeCoster, one of the
country’s largest egg producers, were portrayed as filthy and
badly maintained, with manure
piles teeming with maggots and
overflowing from pits beneath
henhouses.
Those are not the images the
egg industry wants to stick in
consumer’s minds — nor are
they necessarily representative
of most egg farms, federal regulators and industry officials agree.
The farms owned by Midwest
Poultry Services were not associated with the recall, and a tour
of one of them here in northern
Indiana shows that much is being
done in the egg industry to fight
salmonella.
“We’ve had to completely
change the way we look at
things,” said Robert Krouse, the
president of Midwest Poultry
Services, who is also chairman
of the United Egg Producers, an
industry association. “Thirty
years ago, farms had flies and
farms had mice, everything was
exposed to everything else. They
just all happily lived together. You
can’t work that way anymore.”

Controlling pests
Today the hens on Krouse’s
farms come from hatcheries certified to provide chicks free of
salmonella. The young birds are
vaccinated to create resistance
to the bacteria. And then steps
are taken to keep them from being exposed to it, primarily by
controlling mice and flies that
may carry salmonella or spread
it around.

Eggs pass over a light as they are checked for defects at the HiGrade Egg Farm.

Photos by A.J. Mast / New York Times News Service

At the Hi-Grade Egg Farm, buildings are surrounded by a perimeter of stone and gravel, and the
grass between buildings is cut short, to eliminate rodent habitats
That is where the manure drying comes in, although it has other benefits, like preventing bad
smells that can bother neighbors.
Many of the henhouses have
been built or refurbished in recent years. Henhouse No. 1 is
three years old. On the newer
henhouses, the bottom 2 feet of
the outer walls are concrete, to
make it more difficult for mice
to get inside. The buildings are
surrounded by a perimeter of
stone and gravel, and the grass
between buildings is cut short, to
eliminate rodent habitats.
The doors seal tightly, like
doors in a modern home rather
than old-style barn doors. Bait
containers and traps are placed
along the walls, and the number
of trapped mice is tracked closely
to spot any increase in activity.

Visitors are made to dress in
head-to-toe white coveralls made
of a disposable material — evoking images of workers on the sterile floor of a semiconductor factory, only here there are downy
feathers in the air and the racket
made by hundreds of thousands
of birds in cages stacked to the
ceiling.
The suits are meant to keep
out germs that visitors may track
in from off the farm. They may
protect against salmonella, but
they are mostly aimed at pathogens that can ravage flocks with
diseases like avian influenza and
could be tracked in from other
farms or places like golf courses
that are home to wild geese.
The long, gray, tin-sided henhouses, about two football fields
long, have no windows. Sur-

rounded by fields of corn and
soybeans, they hum softly with
the sound of giant fans.

Not all modern
But everything here is not as
modern as the manure-drying
contraption in Henhouse No. 1.
Nearby is a 12-year-old building, Henhouse No. 6.
Here more than 200,000 birds
live on the house’s second floor, in
cages stacked in an A-frame configuration, with an opening at the
center that allows the droppings
to fall into a cavernous groundfloor space below.
Krouse said that just a few
years ago this design was considered the most advanced, and it is
still prevalent throughout the egg
industry, including the henhouses

at the Iowa farms involved in the
recall.
At the farms in Iowa, inspectors found manure piles 8 feet
deep in some barns, with the manure overflowing and bursting
through doors. Escaped chickens
were seen loose in the manure,
and there were flies and maggots, according to the Food and
Drug Administration inspection
reports.
Once again, the picture was
very different here. At the HiGrade barn, the manure was only
about 6 inches deep, lying in five
mounds, about 4 feet wide and
600 feet long, on the floor beneath
the long arrays of cages. Krouse
said the houses were cleaned out
in early August.
Here, there was no suggestion
of chocolate smells. The air had
an ammonia bite, although it
was far from overpowering. And
there were flies, though not in
large numbers (in part because of
plenty of fly traps).
Gary Casper, a farm manager,
said the key to controlling flies
and rodents in this type of barn
was to keep the manure dry.
Large fans around the room kept
the air moving. And he said it was

crucial to watch for problems in
the system that carries water to
the birds in the cages above, and
to stop leaks before they can soak
the manure piles.
Many egg producers have been
working for years to keep salmonella out of their flocks. Midwest
Poultry began testing barns for
salmonella in the late 1990s and
has never found the toxic strain
that can infect eggs.
In July, the FDA put in place
a set of egg safety rules that all
producers must follow, with an
emphasis on testing and rodent
control. For companies like Midwest, that has meant only minor
adjustments. The company, which
has a total of 6 million laying
hens in three states, spent about
$200,000 upgrading refrigeration
equipment to meet stricter rules
for cooling eggs to prevent the
growth of bacteria.
Krouse sells eggs to the large
supermarket chains Kroger and
Wal-Mart, and he says that those
stores now scrutinize their farm
suppliers much as they would a
food manufacturing company.
“They’re looking at us as just
another part of their food production system,” he said.

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Job offer may be good,
but housing market isn’t

Tuning up your 401(k)
for a comfier retirement
By Claudia Buck
McClatchy-Tribune News Service

We want to be good retirement savers, we really do.
But many working Americans find the process intimidating, confusing or financially impossible.
Unfortunately, in an era
where more of the retirement
burden is falling on individuals than their employers, ramping up savings is
essential.
Which helps explain why
401(k) plans, where contributions come out of your paycheck tax-free — and often
are matched by the boss —
are one of the most common
retirement tools out there, research shows.
To get some tips on how
to fine-tune your 401(k), we
talked by phone with Mary
Beth Franklin, senior editor of
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
magazine, who spent weeks
researching the topic for the
magazine’s October issue.
Here’s some of her advice:
Matthew Staver / New York Times News Service

Kimberly Smith, chief executive of Avenue West Corporate Housing and CorporateHousingByOwner.com, recently worked with an executive at who was asked to relocate from the East Coast to San
Francisco. The executive was wary of selling his home and uneasy about buying something in his
new city. So he rented out his former residence and rented a place in San Francisco before buying.

Owning a house has complicated calculus of a job change
By Paul Sullivan
New York Times News Service

Given the high unemployment
rate, a job offer would seem a
sign of great fortune. But it’s not
that simple if the offer means
relocating.
While choosing between the
prospect of exciting new work
and uprooting a family has long
been part of the calculus of a
job change, the current economic slump is complicating the
process.
Specifically, the problem is the
house, that once-great sign of
American success. It is not easy
to sell these days and worth a lot
less than it used to be.
The difficulty in selling a
home has prompted many people
to second-guess a move — and
the job offer that precipitated it.
Is the job really worth it? What
if the job goes away in a year?
What happens then?
Jim Carpenter, managing
partner at J. Carpenter & Co., a
recruiting firm based in Darien,
Conn., said he recently had a
candidate who would not move
to another city for a job even
though he was unemployed and
had limited prospects where he
was.
He said he had another candidate in the mid-Atlantic states
who was hesitant about taking a
job in New England.
“It’s hard for the husband to
look his wife and children in the
eye and say, ‘We’re making this
move, but our house is going
to be 30 percent smaller,’ ” said
Carpenter, who has done highlevel searches for Unilever, Digitas and Black & Decker.
With unemployment still high,
many Americans would love to
have the luxury of a job offer.
Still, for people whose careers
are still chugging along, the
home can be a problem.
So how do you address it?
What options do you have in a
bad housing market? The options
vary from not great to pretty astonishing, given the economy.

Staying put
There are risks to moving, but
there are obviously financial
risks to staying put, even if your
current job is a good one. For
one, that job could go away.
John Archer, managing director of Catalyst Advisors,
which specializes in recruiting
for health care companies, said
the dislocations of the last three
years have left many people opposed to employment elsewhere.
Their house, in a sense, is a
good excuse to stay put. Beyond
the costs of selling it in a bad
market, there are the challenges
of uprooting their families.
Yet Archer said ambitious executives are just as game as ever
to make a move.
“If you look at the macro dis-

cussion, the American economy
is slowing down,” he said. “If
someone is blocked in their current role, they could be looking
several years out to a promotion.
So looking at a new opportunity
could be a motivator.”
And that may mean taking a
loss on the house but being happy to have a new opportunity.

Renting
Still, the insecurity in the housing and job markets has been a
boon to people who want to rent
before committing to a new area
(or selling in an old one).
Kimberly Smith, chief executive of Avenue West Corporate
Housing and CorporateHousingByOwner.com, said she recently
worked with an executive at Kaiser Permanente who was asked
to relocate from the East Coast
to San Francisco. Even though
it was a promotion, the executive was wary of selling his home
and just as uneasy about buying
something in his new city. So he
rented in both places.
This is becoming more common, she said. In a recent study
of the corporate rental industry
conducted by her firm, only 56
percent of respondents considered themselves long-term investors. The remaining 44 percent
are what Smith calls “accidental
landlords,” pressed into the role
by the realities of the housing
market.
That was the case with Anna
and Noah Crossley. In 2007, she
bought a condominium in Nashville, and two years later the two
got married. Then, Crossley, a
classically trained trombonist,
received a fellowship that required them to move to Kansas
City, Kan.
When they went to sell their
condo, though, they found out
that they literally could not: The
developer of the project had never gotten proper Federal Housing Association approval, which
meant that the buyer would have
to come up with the entire price
in cash because no bank would
make a loan. They also failed to
find a traditional renter. So, in
the end, they listed it fully furnished on CorporateHousingByOwner.com.
Since June 2009, Crossley said
there had been only one month
in which the condo was not rented. “We clear our mortgage and
utilities, so it’s wash,” she said.
“But we rent here, and it would
be very tight if we had to pay that
mortgage as well.”
Some of the people renting
out their homes are out-of-work
executives who are now living
someplace less expensive. It is a
difficult option, but it has been a
way for some to keep their homes
from dragging them under while
they search for new jobs.
This is what Stuart Cave, who

lost his job in technology sales a
year ago, has done.
“I hadn’t factored in a perfect
storm of real estate and rental
prices falling and being unemployed for a substantial amount
of time,” said Cave, who owns
a condo in Hoboken, N.J., with
views of New York. “I did this as
an interim step so I don’t have to
blow through a whole lot more of
my savings.”
For most of these people, renting out their homes is a shortterm solution. Smith, whose website charges $279 for a one-year
listing, said the Kaiser executive
decided he liked San Francisco
and bought a home, moving his
furniture out with him. He is still
renting out his home on the East
Coast, but that was more a reflection of the soft housing market than fears about his new job.

Negotiating
The reality is companies that
really want someone are still
putting together perk-filled relocation packages. And for certain
executives, those perks have actually become sweeter, which
may seem counterintuitive given
the high unemployment rate.
But for many companies, this
is a good business decision.
“If you’re moving a guy who’s
making $300,000 a year and has
a $600,000 house, you can’t say,
‘You’ve got to sit on that,’ ” Carpenter said. “It’s an enormous
distraction to the guy and his
family that he can’t sell his house
and buy a new one.”
So if you are one of those lucky
people, what can you expect?
Well, if your $2 million house is
down $600,000 in value, no company is going to cover that loss,
but, recruiters said, you may be
able to get your new employer to
chip in $100,000.
For an even more fortunate
few, companies may still buy
your house. This practice is rare,
given how many companies did
this during the boom and got
stuck holding houses that have
plummeted in value. But Carpenter said he had seen companies
use third-party relocation companies to buy the homes of senior executives.
The era of gaming the appraisal market has come to an end,
though. Archer said there was a
time when a company would ask
you for three estimates and pay
the lowest one. But executives
got to pick the appraisers, and
many of the values were inflated.
“All of that has dissipated,” Archer said.
There is a third option that is
somewhere in between. Companies are willing to help executives cover the rent on an apartment in a new city, with the expectation that they will commute
there during the week. This is
certainly not ideal, but it is a job.

Where Buyers And Sellers Meet

Q:

Trying to save for retirement can be daunting. How do you know if
you’re saving enough?
People have to rely on
themselves for their
future retirement. We’ve
got the first of baby boomers turning 65 who still have
pensions. But going forward,
those who are middle-aged
and younger will really be on
their own. The onus of making sure you’re doing it right,
that you’re setting aside
enough for your retirement,
falls more and more on the
shoulders of workers themselves. Now is a great time to
reassess your plan.

A:

Q:

What’s the magic formula for how much
you should be socking away
in your 401(k)?
You should be contributing about 15 percent
of your gross salary a year;
that’s combined between you
and your employer. If you’re
contributing 10 percent and
your employer is matching
50 cents on the dollar, which
is typical, that’s (an additional) 5 percent.
Always contribute at least
enough to get your employer
match or you are walking
away from free money. Nobody can afford that. If you
don’t take the 3 percent your
boss was going to give you in
2010, it’s gone forever.

A:

Q:

What are some quick
fixes employees can
make to fortify their retirement accounts?
A typical 401(k) plan
participant is a 45year-old employee earning

A:

“The onus of making
sure you’re doing it
right, that you’re setting
aside enough for your
retirement, falls more
and more on the
shoulders of workers
themselves. Now is a
great time to reassess
your plan.”
— Mary Beth Franklin, senior
editor of Kiplinger’s Personal
Finance magazine
$50,000, who contributes 6 percent of salary, has a 50 percent
employer match (combined contribution: 9 percent of total salary) and plans to work full time
until age 65. Assuming an average annual return of 6 percent,
that person would have a nest
egg at retirement of $420,000.
Here are three things you can
do:
• If you work two more years,
until age 67, you could move
that nest egg from $420,000 to
$490,000.
• If you boost your contribution to 10 percent of salary, and
your employer match is still half
(in this case, 5 percent), you
could boost that nest egg at retirement to $540,000.
• If you rejigger your portfolio to get an 8 percent return
instead of 6 percent, you would
have $560,000.
• If you do all three things,
you would have a retirement
nest egg of $850,000, more than
twice where you started in the
original scenario.
It shows that you can make
some small changes that add up.
For somebody who’s 45 years
old, you still have two decades.
... Maybe it’s a wake-up call that
if you’re only saving 6 percent,
frankly that’s not enough.

Q:

What if you’re in your
50s or 60s and don’t have
two decades left to stash away
enough for retirement?
Those are the ones hit
hardest. You probably
have to save more and may have
to work longer to come up with
a nest egg that you consider
comfortable.
If you lost your job at 58 and
can’t find a new job, a lot of
these strategies aren’t going
to help. We’re quite aware that
for many people, it’s a dismal
situation.

A:

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But those coming of age in the
work force today — 20-somethings and those in their early
30s — will be in an environment
where the only retirement plan
available is a 401(k). This is the
new normal for them. By the
time they reach retirement age,
they’ll be fine.

Q:
A:

Why is it so hard for many
people to get going on retirement savings?
Part of it’s inertia. Which
is why this trend toward
automatic enrollments and contributions since 2006 (endorsed
by the Pension Protection Act
that year) is so helpful. You can
opt out, but you have to take an
action to do so.
Don’t say no (if your employer
automatically enrolls you in the
company 401(k) ). It’s coming directly out of your paycheck, just
like state taxes or Social Security. If you don’t see it, you’re not
going to spend it.
We’re starting to see more
companies (using) automatic escalation dates: On your anniversary date, they’ll bump you up 1
or 2 percent, unless you say no.
That’s a very powerful tool and
a very painless way of increasing your retirement savings.

Q:
A:

What if your company
doesn’t offer a 401(k)

Q:
A:

Some final thoughts?

plan?
Roughly 50 million Americans don’t have any retirement plan at work ... generally
those working for businesses
that are too small to make it financially viable to offer retirement plans.
But everyone who has a job
can set up an IRA. You can have
your paycheck make direct deposits to your IRA. There’s no
excuse: If you don’t have a 401(k)
at work, set up an IRA.

This extraordinary recession, which has focused
people on how they’re spending
money, is also focusing them on
how they’re saving money. And
a 401(k) is one of the best forms
of saving money.
We’re all running out of excuses on why we aren’t saving
for retirement. Twenty years
from now, if you reach retirement without enough set aside,
you won’t have a lot of people to
blame but yourself.
Commit to boosting your
401(k) contribution 1 percent a
year for the next five years. The
sooner you start, the better off
you’ll be.

Boyle said in a news release.
Eric Rosenfeld, managing
partner of Portland-based Capybara Ventures, announced last
month that Capybara was about
to invest in Clear Catheter. Herman confirmed Thursday that
Rosenfeld is part of the Oregon
Angel Fund investor group that
put up the $1.2 million, but she
said the fund is not releasing
how much individual investors
provided.
Under terms of the investment,
Jim Fee of the Oregon Angel
Fund has joined the Clear Catheter Systems board of directors,
according to a news release.
“Jim’s extensive experience in
building global medical device
marketing and sales teams will
be of tremendous value to us as
we move forward with our commercialization efforts,” Boyle
said.
Fee describes the PleuraFlow
device as “a groundbreaking
product” to help make heart and
lung surgery safer and more
cost-effective.
“We are excited to support the
company in accelerating the adaptation of this innovative solution to a common problem faced
in hospitals daily,” Fee said.
Clear Catheter Systems was
co-founded by Andrew Firlik,
a neurologist and venture capitalist partner in the Foundation
Medical Partners.
The PleuraFlow is one of several proprietary medical devices
the Bend-Based company has in
its pipeline to prevent tube clogging. Others include systems
for clearing urinary catheters
and keeping feeding tubes clear
as well as systems for standard
surgical drains, according to the
news release.

Continued from B1
Winning the conference
helped Clear Catheter Systems
put together its management
team and license the PleuraFlow
device, which also helped the
company raise $600,000 for human trials, she said.
“What a win at BVC does is
gives them credibility,” Lindley
said.
Last October, Clear Catheter won a worldwide TechnoCollege Award established by
the European Association of
Cardio-Thoracic Surgery to
recognize the most important
technological breakthrough related to thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, according to the
association.
Lindley said Clear Catheter
is one of several high-tech companies in Bend generating economic momentum with their
technological innovations.
Clear Catheter Systems is
the second Bend company to
land a big investment this year.
G5 Search Marketing, a search
engine software development
company, received $15 million
in August from Boston-based
Volition Capital to help G5 improve the mobile application
and social networking aspect
of its software used to market
customers’ websites on search
engines.
Kelly Herman, a media consultant for Clear Catheter Systems, said the Canadian and European governments authorized
selling the PleuraFlow devices
last spring, and the company is
awaiting approval of its application with the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration.
“We are very pleased to have
the OAF (Oregon Angel Fund)
join our investor syndicate,”

Ed Merriman can be reached
at 541-617-7820 or emerriman@
bendbulletin.com.

Bills

based company said this week
that it will refund the charges, incurred when software inside its
phones received or sent signals
or customers were mistakenly
charged for Internet access. The
cost to the company will be about
$50 million, a person familiar with
the matter said.
FCC spokeswoman Jen Howard
declined to comment about further
steps in the commission’s investigation. Marquett Smith, a spokes-

Continued from B1
Carriers including Verizon have
fought against such requirements,
saying they already give customers ways to monitor their usage.
Verizon, the largest U.S. wireless carrier, is also under investigation by the FCC for charging
15 million customers incorrectly
for data. The Basking Ridge, N.J.-

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in court or out of court through
counties — most defaulted loans
are handled nonjudicially. Nonjudicial foreclosure is cheaper
because lenders aren’t forced
to file a lawsuit and hire an attorney. Instead, they can hire a
trustee to file the necessary public notices and documentation
with the county government,
attorneys said. There’s also less
paperwork.
Homeowners who face nonjudicial foreclosure don’t have a
chance to regain their home like
they do in the judicial process,
said Chris Ambrose, an attorney in Bend. Judicial foreclosure
gives people who lost a home to
foreclosure a six-month post-sale
grace period during which the

Continued from B1
Foreclosures are regulated by
courts in those states — called
judicial foreclosures — and employees of some of the nation’s
largest lenders have given sworn
testimony that they sometimes
didn’t verify numbers on foreclosure documents they signed
because of the sheer volume of
cases they’re dealing with, according to news reports. Authorities are also investigating accusations of falsified signatures,
according to those reports.
Though similar problems
could potentially arise in Oregon
— lenders can file foreclosures

Tax relief
Continued from B1
The money was spent on a $3.4
million house in Beverly Hills; a
garage full of cars, including a
Ferrari, a Rolls-Royce, a Bentley,
two Porsches and two MercedesBenzes; and other luxuries.
At the FTC’s request, a federal
district court judge in Chicago
froze the assets of American
Tax Relief and its owners Sept.
24 and appointed a receiver to
manage the company. The judge
also approved a temporary restraining order prohibiting the
company and its owners — Alexander Seung Hahn, who is on
probation for an earlier marketing fraud case, and his wife, Joo
Hyun Park, from making deceptive claims. The FTC does not
have criminal jurisdiction or the
ability to assess fines.
“Everyone has seen these commercials and wondered, ‘Can
I really get away with paying

the IRS only a fraction of what
I owe?’ ” said C. Steven Baker,
director of the FTC’s Midwest
regional office, during an interview. “The short answer is no.”
Of the 20,000 clients that the
FTC says it believes American
Tax Relief signed up, “we have not
been able to find a single one” that
the company helped to reduce a
tax burden, said David Vladek,
the chief of the commission’s division of consumer protection.
Hahn and Park could not be
reached for comment. Charles
Kreindler, a Los Angeles lawyer
who represents the company,
said in a statement that it intended to fight the FTC action,
which “focused on a small handful of complaints and ignored
the thousands of consumers who
have been helped.”
Baker said that companies like
American Tax Relief had created
a widespread misimpression that
anyone with an outstanding tax
debt could settle with the IRS for
less than they owed.

man for Verizon Wireless, declined
to comment on the proposal.
The CTIA, the wireless industry
association, has resisted the idea,
saying it will cause “customer confusion and frustration” and that
carriers already offer customers
ways to control their usage. Subscribers can check their usage
with online monitors or via text
message.
“We have several measures in
place that allow our customers

to monitor their usage and protect against overages — this is a
proactive approach on Verizon’s
part,” Verizon’s Smith said in an emailed statement. AT&T, the second- largest wireless carrier, and
Sprint Nextel, the No. 3, deferred
to the CTIA’s statement on billing
practices.
One in six U.S. mobile-phone
customers has faced unexpected
monthly fees, according to a survey released in May by the FCC.

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But the number filed monthly
has stayed above that figure for
22 straight months, according to
Clerk’s Office records.
Exacerbating the problem:
some of the state’s highest unemployment, which has made it
difficult for homeowners to pay
their mortgages, many of which
financed properties purchased
at prices far higher than they’re
worth today.
The median sales price of
single-family homes in Bend in
August was almost 56 percent
below the peak in May 2007, according to the latest data from
Bend’s Bratton Appraisal Group.
Still, one foreclosure expert
sees a trend.
“It’s flattening out,” said John
Helmick, CEO of Eugene-based
Gorilla Capital, which sells foreclosed properties bought at auction and operates in four states.
“I really think we’re seeing a
leveling off.
“That’s the first step to going
down. But before it goes down,
it’s got to even out.”
Last year, 3,507 notices of
default were filed in Deschutes
County, according to the Clerk’s
Office, an 82 percent increase
over the number filed in 2008.

the title insurance company may
turn around and sue the lender,
Cooper said.
With nonjudicial foreclosure,
however, if a lender sells a foreclosed home, the new buyer
wouldn’t be required to give it
back — even if there were errors
in the foreclosure process, Ambrose said. Based on current law,
the foreclosed homeowner may
only be able to file a damages
claim, he said.
“That’s why it is important, if
someone does see an error, it’s
important to step up and try to
correct it,” he said.
David Holley can be reached
at 541-383-0323 or at dholley@
bendbulletin.com.

A notice of default is the legal
document that starts the foreclosure process. It’s generally filed
by a lender after a borrower’s
mortgage is 90 days delinquent.
Not all notices of default end
up in foreclosure, and Deschutes
County does not track actual
foreclosures.
Helmick believes it will be a
couple of years before default
filings fall to 2007 levels. Deschutes County recorded 589 notices of default in 2007, Clerk’s
Office records show.
Nationally, the number of
properties in the U.S. receiving
default notices in August dipped
1 percent from July and 30 percent from August 2009, according to RealtyTrac, a website that
tracks foreclosure trends and
properties.
One in every 381 housing
units in the nation received a
foreclosure filing in August, RealtyTrac reported.
For Oregon, the website reported 1 in 397 properties received foreclosure notices in
August, the latest information
posted. And in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties, it
listed ratios of 1 in 160, 175 and
169 housing units, respectively.
Tim Doran can be reached
at 541-383-0360 or at tdoran@
bendbulletin.com.

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new owner can’t take posession.
That means the home would sit
vacant and be marked as a real
estate-owned property on the
bank’s balance sheet.
The grace period gives the
former homeowner a chance to
come up with the money the new
owner paid. If the original owner
does do that, he or she can keep
the home, Ambrose said.
That could potentially place
the lender or its trustee — a third
party hired to validate the foreclosure documents — in a vulnerable position if the new buyer has
title insurance on the new home,
Cooper said. If the new buyer
has to return the home because
of faulty foreclosure documents
and files a title insurance claim,

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Monsanto
income
drops by
nearly half
By Andrew Pollack
New York Times News Service

Executives of Monsanto told
skittish investors Wednesday
that earnings per share would
grow 13 percent to 17 percent
in the next fiscal year and
that the company was on its
way to fixing problems in its
seed business that have undermined the confidence of
Wall Street.
The remarks, in line with
some previous assurances by
company executives, were
made as Monsanto reported that net income for the
year that ended Aug. 31 had
dropped by nearly half from a
year earlier.
“I believe we’ve taken steps
to allow our company to return to growth,” Hugh Grant,
the chief executive, told analysts and investors on a conference call.
He said the seed business
was going to offer “more products at more price points” to
help regain the trust of farmers who have been put off by
high seed prices and lowerthan-expected yields for some
products.
Company shares, which
have lost about 40 percent
of their value this year, rose
5 percent in early trading
Wednesday but then settled
back down. At midday, shares
were 2.6 percent higher.
Monsanto, the world’s biggest seed company and the
leading developer of genetically engineered crops, said
that net income for the year
plunged to $1.1 billion from
$2.1 billion a year earlier.

Geithner tries to stoke
international pressure
on China over currency
By Howard Schneider
The Washington Post

The Obama administration is
trying to escalate international
pressure on China to change how
it manages its currency, casting a
global focus on what U.S. officials
say has become a major risk to the
economic recovery.
Calling the currency issue the
“central existential challenge” facing the world economy, Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledged that the administration’s effort to settle the one-on-one
spat through quiet diplomacy had
failed and marked a new phase in
the struggle with Chinese officials.
China’s policy of keeping the
yuan cheap on world markets
“sets off a dangerous dynamic”
that encourages other countries to
follow suit and risks touching off
a destructive, tit-for-tat competition for jobs and trade, Geithner
said in remarks at the Brookings
Institution.
“It’s unfair to countries that
were already running more flexible regimes and let their currencies appreciate,” he said.
In seeking to muster a broader
coalition, Geithner issued an ultimatum to the International Monetary Fund: take a more aggressive stand on China’s currency or
potentially lose U.S. backing for
a series of efforts pending at the
agency.
The IMF is debating changes in
how it is governed to give greater

influence to developing nations in
Asia and elsewhere, but Geithner
said these steps should be tied to
these countries, in particular China, allowing their currencies to
more closely adhere to free-market levels.
“That’s the deal on the table,”
Geithner said in his comments,
delivered on the eve of the IMF’s
annual meeting.
His remarks come as concerns grow that China’s currency
management may prompt other
countries to keep their currencies
cheap so their exports remain relatively affordable. The Brazilian
finance minister, for one, warned
last month of a developing “currency war.”
Capital has been pouring into
emerging markets such as Brazil,
India and China, and analysts
talk in terms of a strategic shift in
world investment patterns. These
analysts say money is moving
away from the slower-growing
developed countries and toward
emerging markets that are producing better returns and have
increasingly sound economic institutions and governments. It is a
change some regard as a defining
shift in the global economy.
No one, including Geithner, advocates a quick, dramatic rise in
the renminbi of a sort that would
disrupt China’s important manufacturing sector. But pressure for
some significant change seems to
be growing.

Measure
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REDMOND
SCHOOL DISTRICT

Community asked
for its input before
superintendent’s
1-year contract is up

Voters to decide if state
should permit gaming
center to be built at old
dog track near Portland

By Patrick Cliff
The Bulletin

The Redmond School Board
wants to know how you feel
about the job Superintendent
Shay Mikalson has done in his
roughly four months on the job.
The board recently wrote and
launched an anonymous threequestion survey on the district’s
website.
If it seems
quick to pass
judgment on
a superintendent, the board
feels
rushed
by the timeline
a search for a
replacement
Shay
demands.
Mikalson
Mikalson
was hired in
the spring with
a one-year contract, and if the
board decides to replace him,
its members want to begin the
search in November.
The board’s urgency dates
back to its search for someone
to replace Vickie Fleming, who
resigned in January. Beginning
the search in January is late
and limited the pool of external
candidates, the district said. The
board rejected all 15 applications
from external candidates and
eventually hired Mikalson, then
the principal at the district’s Obsidian Middle School.

By Scott Hammers
The Bulletin

A six-year push by two Lake Oswego men
looking to build a privately owned casino in
Multnomah County may be resolved by voters
next month.
Measure 75 would authorize the state to allow the
construction of a casino at an
abandoned dog racing track
in Wood Village, a small community east of Portland. The
backers of the casino plan,
Bruce Studer and Matt Rossman, have attempted to bring
the issue before voters twice
before. In 2006 they met legal challenges from
opponents that slowed their signature-gathering
efforts, and in 2008, they declined to collect signatures after filing a prospective initiative petition with the Secretary of State’s Office.
Casinos are banned under the Oregon Constitution, and a separate constitutional amendment
would be required to allow the Wood Village
project to move forward. The state’s existing nine
casinos are operated by tribes on their tribal reservations, where state law does not apply.
If approved, the Multnomah casino would operate under a renewable 15-year lease from the
state Lottery Commission, and would return 25
percent of gaming profits to the state. Estimates
project the state’s share of profits during the
casino’s first year of operation at between $83
million and $147 million.
See Casino / C2

ELECTION

Judge dismisses
employees’ suit
against Bend firm

Board may extend
Mikalson’s contract
Despite the call for input, the
board is pleased with Mikalson
and is considering extending
his contract, according to board
Chairman Jim Erickson.
The survey is a chance to reach
out to the community, he said.
“(The survey) isn’t there because we’re looking for some
kind of problem,” Erickson said.
“It’s there so folks across the district … feel we are interested in
their input. And we are interested in their input.”
Though districts often use
anonymous surveys to check on
issues, polling the public for a
superintendent evaluation is uncommon, according to American
Association of School Administrators spokeswoman Kitty
Porterfield.
“It is always helpful for a
school board to stay in touch
with the community, to check
that the work of the school
board and staff are serving (the
community’s) needs,” Porterfield
said. “I think it’s a little more unusual to be quite so focused on
one thing.”

3-question survey
The survey includes three
questions. The first asks for
“strengths in Superintendent
Mikalson’s leadership.” Next, the
board queries the respondents
for any “concerns” with Mikalson’s work.
See Survey / C2

Correction
In an story headlined “Second
black bear found in Bend,” which
appeared on Wednesday, Oct.
6, on Page C1, Phil Pohl’s name
was spelled incorrectly.
The Bulletin regrets the error.

By Cindy Powers
The Bulletin

Andy Tullis / The Bulletin

Highland Elementary School fourth-grader Trinity Falls, 9, foreground, rides her bicycle across the Drake
Park footbridge with her fellow students, who were all riding to school during the International Walk and Bike
to School day, in Bend on Wednesday morning. More than 100 students from Highland Elementary took part
in the event by riding their bicycles, scooters and skateboards to school. Once at the school, each participating student received a goody bag containing a water bottle, an energy bar and a variety of coupons, all
donated by area businesses. Sixteen Central Oregon schools participated in the Walk and Bike to School
Day, which is promoted locally by Commute Options. The next International Walk and Bike to School Day will
be held on the first Wednesday of October 2011. Many of the 16 area schools that participated in this event
invite students to take part in monthly Ride to School days. The last week of each June, Commute Options
holds a Commuter Challenge. Businesses can win prizes and gift certificates by excelling in the challenge. To
compete, employees of participating businesses walk, bike, carpool, telecommute or use public transportation. Commute Options offers year-round program incentives for regional businesses and schools that explore
more environmentally friendly modes of transportation.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit
against a Bend customer service company filed
by two employees claiming it violated an employment agreement.
Pamela Castaneda and Pamela McCauley
filed suit earlier this year saying TRG Customer
Solutions fired them from positions at its Bendbased call center in 2008 for disclosing confidential personnel information.
TRG representatives have declined to comment on the case. But court documents show
the company argued the women had no employment contract and their firing was within the
company’s discretion as an at-will employer,
meaning it can fire employees at any time and
without cause under Oregon law.
See Lawsuit / C2

Airport’s solar power
tracked on new website
By Patrick Cliff
The Bulletin

On the Web

You can now monitor how
much energy the Redmond
Airport’s solar panels are
generating by visiting a new
website that tracks the panels’
performance.
Since Aug. 25, for instance,
the panels have generated
enough energy to run 48 60watt light bulbs for a year each.
The panels cost about
$550,000. The airport only had

To check the solar
panels’ performance,
visit www.ci.redmond.or.us
and click on “Airport Solar
Panels Information.”
to pay about $27,500 because
federal and private grants covered the bulk of the total cost,
according to airport Manager
Carrie Novick.

The panels will provide up
to 10 percent of the recently expanded airport’s power, Novick
said. That, however, comes at a
time when the airport has become more efficient, she said.
The $40 million expansion increased the terminal’s size from
23,000 square feet to 140,000
square feet, but the building’s
power needs increase by about
21⁄2 times, Novick said.
“It’s clearly a much more efficient building,” Novick said.

A screen shot of a new website that tracks the performance of
solar panels at Redmond Airport.

C OV ER S T OR I ES

C2 Thursday, October 7, 2010 â&#x20AC;˘ THE BULLETIN

L B
Compiled from Bulletin staff reports

Open house slated to
discuss surface water
A public open house to discuss the city of Bendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surface
water improvement project will
be held Tuesday, according to a
news release.
The event, which will be
held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the
Bend Parks & Recreation District office, will help educate
Bend residents about the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Bridge Creek surface water
supply, along with future projects to comply with new federal
regulations.
Representatives from the
city, the U.S. Forest Service,
Deschutes County and Western Federal Lands will be present at the event to answer questions about the improvement
project.

Deschutes library
to be closed Oct. 18
The Deschutes Public Library system will close Oct. 18
due to staff training, according
to a news release.
Branches in Bend, La Pine,

Redmond, Sisters and Sunriver
will be closed while staff members train. Bookmobile Services will also be closed. The
libraries will reopen for normal
hours on Oct. 19.

Gala to benefit
Sisters Elementary
A gala to benefit Sisters Elementary School will be held
by the Sisters Parent-Teacher
Community on Nov. 6, according to a news release.
The 4th Annual Green and
Gold Gala Auction, which will
start at 6 p.m., will feature dinner, music, dancing and an auction. The event will be held at
Brand 33 Restaurant at Aspen
Lakes Golf Course, and tickets
cost $25 in advance. Money
raised from the event will go
toward supporting programs
at Sisters Elementary School,
including art literacy, author
assemblies, and Science Day.
Tickets for the event can be
purchased at Sisters Elementary School, Brand 33 Restaurant
at Aspen Lakes or at Metamorphosis Day Spa in Sisters.

N
R
POLICE LOG
The Bulletin will update items
in the Police Log when such
a request is received. Any
new information, such as the
dismissal of charges or acquittal,
must be verifiable. For more
information, call 541-383-0358.
Bend Police Department

Unlawful entry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle
was reported entered at 9:15
a.m. Oct. 5, in the 2300 block
of Northwest Elm Avenue.
Unlawful entry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle
was reported entered at 8:18
a.m. Oct. 5, in the 1700 block
of Northwest Elm Court.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An iPod was
reported stolen at 8:06 a.m.
Oct. 5, in the 1000 block of
Southwest Veterans Way.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported at
8:02 a.m. Oct. 5, in the 2700 block
of Southwest Indian Avenue.
Unlawful entry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle
was reported entered at 8:01
a.m. Oct. 5, in the 2200 block
of Northwest Elm Avenue.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported
at 7:35 a.m. Oct. 5, in the 1800
block of Northwest Elm Court.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An act of
criminal mischief was reported at
6:53 a.m. Oct. 5, in the 2400 block
of Southwest Canal Boulevard.
DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Timothy Fowler, 24, was
arrested on suspicion of driving
under the influence of intoxicants
at 12:48 a.m. Oct. 5, in the 600
block of Southwest Fifth Street.

Prineville Police
Department

Vehicle crash â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An accident was
reported at 12:02 p.m. Oct. 5, in the
area of Northeast Combs Flat Road.
Deschutes County
Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office

Unauthorized use â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle was
reported stolen at 5:37 p.m. Oct.
5, in the area of Hinkle Butte and
Panoramic drives in Cloverdale.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An act of
criminal mischief was reported
at 12:54 p.m. Oct. 5, in the 51300
block of Anchor Way in La Pine.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Items were reported
stolen from a vehicle at 10:53
a.m. Oct. 5, in the 15600 block
of Sparks Drive in La Pine.

Casino
Continued from C1
Funds provided to the state
would be widely distributed.
Fifty percent would be dedicated
to K-12 classroom instruction,
and 30 percent would be shared
among counties and the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
10 largest cities in proportion to
their populations. Wood Village
would get a 4 percent share, the
adjoining communities of Fairview, Gresham and Troutdale
would each receive a 3 percent
share, and Multnomah County
and the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Problem Gambling Treatment Fund would receive 2 percent each.
Studer said the disbursement
would provide both Deschutes
County and the city of Bend approximately $974,000 in the first
year of operation.

More than gambling
While voter approval is key to
the development of the casino,
the complex would offer more
than gambling. Plans released by
the backers show indoor and outdoor water parks, restaurants, a
hotel, a bowling alley and a 14screen movie theater.
Studer said formal opposition to the proposal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which
has primarily come from tribes
involved in gaming â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is based
on the assumption that there are
only so many gambling dollars
to go around. The Wood Village
casino would draw players from
around the country, he said, and
while it could have an impact on
Oregon Lottery gaming at nearby businesses with video lottery
machines, gaming in the greater
Portland area is nowhere close to
the saturation point. Spirit Mountain Casino and Lodge is the nearest tribal casino, located about 60

Survey

BEND FIRE RUNS

Continued from C1
The third question is open, requesting additional comments.
The survey will remain online
until 5 p.m. Friday. So far the district has received 180 responses,
according to district spokeswom-

PETS
The following animals have
been turned in to the Humane
Society of the Ochocos in
Prineville or the Humane Society
of Redmond animal shelters.
You may call the Humane Society
of the Ochocos â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 541-4477178 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or check the website at
www.humanesocietyochocos.
com for pets being held at the
shelter and presumed lost. The
Redmond shelterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s telephone
number is 541-923-0882
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or refer to the website at www.
redmondhumane.org. The Bend
shelterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website is www.hsco.org.
Redmond

Continued from C1
Castaneda and McCauley
claimed confidentiality agreements they signed, saying they
would not disclose TRGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s confidential or proprietary information, was essentially an employment contract.
The womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer, Marc
Andersen, could not be reached
for comment Wednesday.
The suit against TRG said the
women accessed a file with disciplinary information about an employee against whom McCauley
had made a sexual harassment
complaint â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a file the women
believed was available to all TRG
employees. But the 2008 letter
from TRG states the women did
breach their agreement with the
company by sharing confidential
personnel information.
The women claimed they were
investigated and fired by the
centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operations manager,
Greg Brown, a former Deschutes

Measure 75
A yes vote: Would allow for
the development of a casino
in Wood Village, provided
a separate amendment to
the Oregon constitution is
approved. State and local
governments would receive
25 percent of the casinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
gambling earnings.
A no vote: Casinos would
remain banned in Oregon,
no impact on tribal casinos
or the Oregon Lottery.
Source: Oregon Secretary of Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office

miles away in Grand Ronde.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be competition
for them, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want it, and
I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say I blame them,â&#x20AC;? Studer
said.
The tribes that operate on-reservation casinos in Oregon do
not pay a share of their revenues
to the state. In statements prepared for the Votersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pamphlet,
the Spirit Mountain Community Fund, a philanthropic effort
operated by The Confederated
Tribes of Grand Ronde, claims
to have donated $50 million to
charities around the state in the
last 10 years, while the Oregon
Tribal Gaming Alliance claims
Oregon tribes have given almost
$100 million to Oregon charities
during the same period.
Not counting money paid out
in prizes, 65 cents of every dollar taken in by Oregon Lottery
video lottery machines goes to
the state, with 22 cents going
to the businesses that host the
machines and the remaining
13 cents to administration and
maintenance of the machines.
Bill Perry of the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association,
which opposes the amendment,
said his clients donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t oppose com-

an Stephanie Curtis.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll compile responses and
give them to the board,â&#x20AC;? Curtis
said.
The board expects to decide
on Mikalsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future by its Oct.
13 meeting, according to Erickson. Board members, he said,
do not want to wait so long that a
search would be undermined.

County sheriff once imprisoned
for embezzling more than a half
million dollars from the county
and a fire protection district between 1996 and 2000.
When the women were fired,
TRG wrote them a letter saying
the files they accessed were confidential and that they violated
their agreement with the company by sharing the personnel
information.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Both Ms. Castaneda and Ms.
McCauley admitted to these
facts,â&#x20AC;? the letter reads.
Last week, U.S. District Judge
Michael Hogan issued a written
decision that Castaneda and McCauley did not have a legitimate
breach of contract claim.
Hogan found the confidentiality agreement was not an employment contract because it did not
state a duration of employment
or under what circumstances the
women could be fired.
Cindy Powers can be
reached at 541-617-7812 or
cpowers@bendbulletin.com

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be competition for them, they
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want it, and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say I blame them.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bruce Studer, backer of casino plan
petition, but that the proposed
amendment would give the casino an unfair competitive edge.
Because it would be the only facility in the Portland area allowed to
provide large-scale gambling, Perry said the casino operators would
be able to use gambling proceeds
to subsidize their theaters and
bowling alleys and other features.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to undercut
every form of entertainment,,â&#x20AC;?
he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be the only
form of entertainment in town
because nobody will be able to
compete with them.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not fairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
Changing the law for the benefit of a single project is the wrong
way to approach the question of
expanded gambling in Oregon,
Perry said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you want to have a discussion of whether we should repeal
the casino ban, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a legitimate
policy discussion, but all these
guys have done is say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We bought
this property and we want a special exemption,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just
on its face, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not fair.â&#x20AC;?
Studer and Rossman said if they
are successful, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing to
prevent another group interested
in developing a casino from putting its proposal before voters.
Construction of the casino
would take about two years, cost
at least $250 million, and employ up to 5,000 people, according to estimates by backers. The
completed facility would employ
more than 2,000 people, at an average of $35,000 per year.
Studer said the completed fa-

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will be ready to make a
decision,â&#x20AC;? Erickson said.

Inform, not decide
The survey results will not
make up the entire evaluation,
according to Erickson. The board
has a set evaluation form with
Mikalson. Rather, the responses

cility would help the Portland
area compete for convention and
trade show business, and would
attract Portland-area residents
who are not currently playing
Oregon Lottery games or visiting tribal casinos.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Casino gaming is distinctly
different than gaming in a little
room off a tavern,â&#x20AC;? Studer said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;One is convenience gaming and
one is destination gaming. Oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
like a 7-Eleven and oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a
Whole Foods.â&#x20AC;?
Scott Hammers can be
reached at 541-383-0387 or
shammers@bendbulletin.com.

ELECTION
CALENDAR
Redmond candidate
forum slated Oct. 15
A â&#x20AC;&#x153;meet the candidatesâ&#x20AC;?
lunch forum will be held in
Redmond on Oct. 15 at the Juniper Golf Club, according to
a news release.
The lunch, which will be
held from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
will feature candidates Tory
Allman, Margie Dawson,
Ed Onimus, Jay Patrick and
George Endicott.
The event will cost $13 per
person, and those interested
must make reservations
by calling 541-923-5191 or
e-mailing
Karen@visit
redmondoregon.com.

will inform but not determine the
boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision, Erickson said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a contributing factor,â&#x20AC;? Erickson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask for
the information if we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to read it and see what it says.â&#x20AC;?
Patrick Cliff can be
reached at 541-633-2161 or at
pcliff@bendbulletin.com.

Tight money prevents some
counties from prosecuting
The Associated Press
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to get voters to approve levies,
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as 20 years. Among those crimes
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Today is Thursday, Oct. 7, the
280th day of 2010. There are 85
days left in the year.
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IN HISTORY
On Oct. 7, 1910, a major wildfire devastated the northern
Minnesota towns of Spooner
and Baudette, charring at least
300,000 acres. Some 40 people
are believed to have died.
ON THIS DATE
In 1777, the second Battle
of Saratoga began during the
American Revolution. (British
forces under Gen. John Burgoyne
surrendered ten days later.)
In 1858, the fifth debate between Illinois senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and
Stephen Douglas took place in
Galesburg.
In 1940, Artie Shaw and his
Orchestra recorded Hoagy Carmichaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stardustâ&#x20AC;? for RCA
Victor.
In 1949, the Republic of East
Germany was formed.
In 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy
and Republican opponent Richard M. Nixon held their second
televised debate, in Washington

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D.C. The TV series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Route 66â&#x20AC;?
premiered on CBS.
In 1985, Palestinian gunmen
hijacked the Italian cruise ship
Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean. (The hijackers, who killed
an elderly Jewish American
tourist, Leon Klinghoffer, surrendered two days after taking
over the ship.)
In 1989, Hungaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Communist Party renounced Marxism
in favor of democratic socialism during a party congress in
Budapest.
In 1991, University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill
publicly accused Supreme Court
nominee Clarence Thomas of
making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked
for him; Thomas denied Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
allegations.
In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a
gay college student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten,
robbed and left tied to a wooden
fencepost outside of Laramie;
he died five days later. (Russell
Henderson and Aaron McKinney are serving life sentences for
Shepardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s murder.)

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O
Woman gets life after admitting
guilt in murder, removal of fetus
By Nigel Duara
The Associated Press

HILLSBORO — An Oregon
woman obsessed with having
a baby pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murder of a pregnant
woman whose unborn child was
cut from her abdomen after she
was bludgeoned to death.
Korena Roberts, 29, was sentenced to life in prison without
the possibility of parole. Her plea
means she won’t face trial and a
possible death sentence.
She was accused of beating 21year-old Heather Snively with a

collapsible police baton in June
2009 and using a straight razor
to open Snively’s abdomen.
Roberts’ boyfriend found her
in the tub with a lifeless infant
that doctors determined had
never drawn a breath. It was due
two months later.

Body in crawl space
Officers found Snively’s body
in the crawl space of Roberts’
home.
For months before the killing, Roberts told neighbors she

was pregnant, going so far as to
acquire a stroller, baby formula
and parenting magazines.
A few weeks before the killing, Snively moved to Oregon
from Maryland to be with her
fiance. Detectives have said they
believe Roberts and Snively met
through an online classified service where both were looking for
baby clothes.
Roberts had attempted to
contact other pregnant women
through Craigslist and by telephone before making the connection with Snively, District

Attorney Bob Hermann said in
court Wednesday.
During a bail hearing last November, Roberts’ attorney said
she had given birth to a stillborn
child in 2007 and seemed obsessed with babies, repeatedly
watching videos of births on
YouTube, sewing baby clothes
and telling people for about a
year that she was pregnant.
Roberts’ boyfriend, Yan Shubin, told police he called 911 on
June 5, 2009, after coming home
and finding Roberts with a baby
covered in blood.

UMPQUA NATIONAL FOREST

Logging in roadless area cut back
Forest Service still
going ahead with
plan to reduce
danger of wildfires
By Jeff Barnard
The Associated Press

GRANTS PASS — The U.S.
Forest
Service
announced
Wednesday it is going ahead
with plans to log inside a roadless area in Oregon to reduce
the danger of wildfire, but over
a much smaller area than originally planned.
The Umpqua National Forest
announced it will publish Friday
the final environmental impact
statement on the D-Bug timber
sale, which is designed to reduce
wildfire danger around the Diamond Lake and Lemolo Lake resort areas.
The 2-year-old project was
The Associated Press file photo
widely seen as a test of Presi- District Ranger Bill Gamble points out a telltale hole indicating beetles have attacked a pine tree in
dent Barack Obama’s campaign Umpqua National Forest in September 2009. The U.S. Forest Service announced Wednesday it is
promise to protect the 58 million cutting back plans for commercial logging inside a roadless area as part of the plan to reduce fire
acres of backcountry that has danger in the area.
never been commercially logged
on national forests across the
country.
Area, which is densely packed the start as a way to improve the thinning within their borders.
“Although we scaled back from with lodgepole pines, many of ecological health of the forest, But thinning costs money, and
what we originally proposed, the which have been killed by moun- and were disappointed that was commercial logging is often
project still provides a way for tain pine beetles. Lemolo Lake is scaled back.
tacked on to projects to help pay
people to evacuate the Diamond a smaller resort lake nearby.
Mickey said much of the 7,800 for them.
and Lemolo area in case of fire
The project scaled back com- acres being treated had to be
The idea of preserving roadand provides better safety zones mercial logging from 621 acres subsidized by the Forest Service less areas for wildlife habitat and
for our firefighters,” Umpqua within roadless areas to 78 acres. because of low timber value.
clean water came out of the ClinNational Forest Supervisor Cliff It is all along a road on the west“We are hoping that somebody ton administration. The Bush adDils said in a statement.
ern side of Diamond Lake that will be able to pencil this out to ministration tried to open them
“We recognize
serves 102 pri- get this out of the woods without up to more logging and mining
that fire is part
vate cabins on having to go to a total subsidy by giving states control. Courts
of the Diamond “The project
federal land, Dils situation,” he said.
have yet to finally resolve legal
and Lemolo lakes
said. Without the
Roadless areas have escaped issues over which rule applies
landscape,”
he still provides a
logging, there is logging largely because they and where.
added. “It is our way for people
nowhere for fire- were too remote and rugged to
During the presidential camresponsibility to
fighters to make make timber harvests profitable. paign, Obama promised to reto evacuate the
act within the
a stand against a With the government spending spect the Clinton rule, and Agnext five years to Diamond and
fire moving out of $1 billion a year fighting wild- riculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
address safety is- Lemolo area in
the roadless area fires, pressure has built to do repeated that pledge last year.
sues that we will
toward the cabneed to deal with case of fire and
ins, Dils said.
over the next 20 provides better
“When they deyears.”
signed this plan,
Dils said the safety zones for
it really looked
project was re- our firefighters.”
like they wanted
viewed by Agrito test the limits
culture Secretary — Cliff Dils, Umpqua
of the Obama adTom
Vilsack’s National Forest
ministration on
office under the supervisor
roadless,”
said
original 2001 rule
Steve
Pedery,
protecting roadconservation diless areas, which allows thin- rector for Oregon Wild. “And
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camping, fishing and snowmo- can’t resist pushing the envelope
biling area high in the Cascade a little bit.”
Range east of Roseburg where 102
Ross Mickey of the American
privately owned cabins on nation- Forest Resource Council, a timal forest land stand across a road ber industry group, said they
from the Mount Bailey Roadless had supported the project from

Gang shooting
follows gang funeral
PORTLAND — Less than
an hour after leaving a funeral
service for the victim of a gang
shootout, a young Portland
man was wounded in the legs
in what police believe was a
drive-by gang shooting.
Members of the city’s gang
squad in unmarked cars
swarmed the streets around
the Maranatha Church of God
in northeast Portland during
the service Tuesday afternoon,
then scrambled to investigate
the shooting 13 blocks away,
The Oregonian reported.
The 19-year-old victim was
not immediately identified.
Police said he is expected to
recover after being hit once in
each leg.
Police said they found the
car from which the shots were
fired. They said it may have
been stolen a week earlier at
gunpoint outside a strip club.

Man says he was shot
while asleep on couch
SALEM — Authorities say a
man has reported he was shot
while sleeping on his couch,
and officers say a car stolen in
California was connected to
the crime.
The Marion County Sheriff’s
Office said 30-year-old Ellis
Bellack reported the shooting
about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday.
He was treated for a gunshot
wound in the arm and released
from the hospital, The Salem
Statesman Journal reported.
Deputies said he was shot
from outside the house. They
didn’t know exactly how many
rounds were fired but they
found a number of bullet holes
in the house.
Following tips, deputies
found a black 1996 Honda
parked with its motor running
about a mile from the house.

for more than a decade.
The Oregonian newspaper
reported the agency notified
Portland General Electric last
week that improvements at the
Boardman plant in 1998 and
2004 increased pollution and
should have triggered controls
to limit sulfur dioxide.
The utility company says it
doesn’t believe it violated the
law.
The agency says the utility
could be liable for civil penalties of up to $37,500 for each
day the plant operated without
proper pollution controls.

Rowdy partyers won’t
play ball, Eugene says
EUGENE — Eugene authorities say they’re not getting the
cooperation they’d hoped for in
toning down parties in a neighborhood near the University of
Oregon where things got rowdy
as the fall term began.
Two weekends ago, officers
used tear gas to break up an
alcohol-fueled party west of the
campus.
City and university officials
then went door to door to talk
to renters about being good
neighbors.
But on Friday and Saturday
police dispersed crowds in the
same area before things got out
of hand.
About 60 citations were issued for underage drinkers or
for carrying open containers of
alcohol in public.

Toddler killed when
pulled in to harvester
IRRIGON — Morrow County, Oregon, sheriff’s deputies say a 2-year-old boy was
killed when he was pulled into
an onion-potato harvesting
machine.
Undersheriff Steven Myren
identified the victim of the
Tuesday night incident as Aden
Martine Marguia.
Myren says the boy’s father,
35-year-old Sergio Marguia,
was testing a replacement belt
on the harvesting machine at
a storage facility near Irrigon
when the boy got too close and
was pulled into the machinery.
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n a state that purports to put as much value on keeping the
public informed about its government as Oregon does, it’s
hard to figure out why the Oregon Department of Administra-

tive Services opted for secrecy in relocating the Bend Department
of Motor Vehicles office. “Because we could” is not a valid reason,
and if the law allows it, the law should be changed.
The DMV office’s new space, in
Brookswood Meadow Plaza on the
southern edge of Bend, is ill-suited,
it seems to us. Far away from most of
the people who’ll use it, the location
will serve the citizens of Bend poorly
and violates at least the spirit of the
city’s development code. Moreover, it
flies in the face of a state law that urges consolidation of state office space
and it is likely to do so for a minimum
of 10 years.
It needn’t have been that way.
Had the city and neighbors known
of the proposed new location, the
latter would have protested loudly
while the former may well have been
able to help DAS find a more suitable
location.
State Rep. Judy Stiegler says state
law does not require public notification, however, at least not when the
space in question is under 10,000 feet.
The new DMV office will be below
that magic cutoff point.

It seems to us it’s time to change
the law. Public agencies spend taxpayer dollars to lease space around
Oregon, and they should keep the
public informed of their plans. Officials may argue that early notification
is likely to drive rental prices up, but
the opposite is equally likely. In this
case, with rental space going begging
in the community, public notification
might well have allowed another landlord with more suitably located and
perhaps less expensive space to step
forward.
That would have served nearly
everyone better than the current new
location will. Taxpayers would have
saved some amount of money on a
less expensive lease.
RiverRim neighbors probably
wouldn’t now be upset with the new
location. And Bend residents would
have been able to find the DMV without having to resort to MapQuest.
What could be wrong with that?

Make deferral on
SDCs permanent
B
uilders in the city of Bend currently have the right to delay
paying systems development
charges until a project is completed
or nearly so. Now builders want the
Bend Park & Recreation District to
grant such delays, too, though district directors don’t seem particularly thrilled with the idea. We hope
they reconsider. At the same time, we
hope both they and the city make the
deferrals the standard way of doing
business.
City officials began the deferral
program in 2008 as a sort of homegrown economic stimulus plan. Under it, builders could ask the city for
a nine-month delay in paying city
SDCs, which normally are shelled out
when a building permit is issued. The
delay ends either at nine months or
when an occupancy permit is issued,
whichever comes first. While it hasn’t
sparked a turnaround of the housing market, it has eased the crunch
at least a bit for some builders, who
often must borrow the money to pay
SDCs up front.
To date, the park district has not
joined in the program, and if the discussion at a meeting earlier this week
is an indication, directors aren’t particularly taken with the idea. They
worry that, should the city forget to
collect the park SDCs when it collects
for the city, they will have no way of
capturing the money once the build-

While the delay hasn’t
sparked a turnaround of
the housing market, it has
eased the crunch at least
a bit for some builders,
who often must borrow the
money to pay SDCs up front.
ing is occupied. Surely, however, that
is an easily solvable problem, and refusing to address it punishes wouldbe builders for errors beyond their
control.
Meanwhile, the city should consider making the deferral permanent,
and the park district should join it.
While the number of builders opting
for the delay has been even smaller
than the number of building permits
issued in the last couple of years, the
deferral makes sense. After all, the
purpose of SDCs is to allow the city
and the park district to recoup, at
least in part, what must be spent on
the expanded facilities the additional
population will require. Until the new
buildings are occupied no new demand is there, and forcing builders
and ultimately home and business
owners to pay even more than they
otherwise would have to makes no
sense.

My Nickel’s Worth
Replace Wyden

cated lottery funding for clean water,
healthy rivers, parks, outdoor education and local communities.
Having been a resident of Bend for
30 years, I have developed a strong appreciation for the natural environment,
particularly here in Central Oregon.
Like me, thousands of people have
migrated to Central Oregon to experience the outdoor life this area has to
offer. Healthy watersheds are critical
to maintaining outdoor recreation as
a way of life. Fishermen, hikers, bicyclists, hunters, paddlers and other outdoor enthusiasts have all been touched
by the natural beauty of rivers and
lakes throughout the state.
There are many organizations devoted to watershed management, and
I have the privilege of being the president of one such organization, the
Upper Deschutes Watershed Council.
The UDWC works to restore local rivers and monitor long-term watershed
health. In addition, the educational
programs implemented by UDWC and
its partners give students the tools to
understand how watersheds work and
instill a sense of place.
Measure 76 will renew a very successful funding program that has been
in place for the last 12 years. I marvel
at the accomplishments that have been
achieved during this time, and I am
excited to see the success that will continue if Measure 76 is passed.
I urge the public to support what has
made Central Oregon such a spectacular place, the great outdoors. Please
vote “yes” on Measure 76.
Rick Wright
Bend

Sen. Wyden voted for the stimulus
bill, which provided $787 billion and
was supposed to stimulate the economy
(and arguably has failed). The bill allows agencies to award contracts to employers that use foreign labor through
the H-2B visa program on the condition that the employers prove they have
been unable to find American labor.
The Bulletin recently reported that
nearly $13 million from the stimulus
package has gone to Oregon forest
contractors that employ foreign workers. Other federal forest contractors
who do not use foreign workers are
rightfully outraged that they were outbid by contractors who are using foreign labor. At $12 to $22 per hour, these
contractors say they can find plenty of
local workers.
Recently, Wyden sent a letter of inquiry to the Department of Labor/Forest Service requesting justification of
the use of stimulus funds to hire H-2B
workers.
So, on the one hand Wyden votes
for the stimulus package that specifically allowed for H-2B workers to be
hired, and on the other hand he writes
to the Forest Service asking why it is
allowing something which he voted to
approve.
There’s something wrong with this
picture. Either Wyden didn’t read the
bill or, if he did, he didn’t do his homework to decipher the impact of this legislation and is now trying to cover for
it. In either case, it’s time for a change.
Vote for Jim Huffman in November.
Rich Stanfield
Bend

Good under Kitzhaber

Support 76

The negative ads portraying eight
bad years under John Kitzhaber are
just a flat lie. If I recall, the economy
was pretty good under Kitzhaber for

This November, Oregonians will
vote on Measure 76. This ballot measure seeks to continue Oregon’s dedi-

six of those years. The last two were
brought down by the national dot.com
bust and drop in lumber demand. A
couple of years later, the whole national
economy started imploding. Kitzhaber
helped initiate the Oregon Option, a
co-op approach with the federal government to increase accountability and
reduce bureaucracy related to a number of government services. In his first
term, the state reduced the number of
welfare cases dramatically, saving the
state more than $200 million. He has
always fought for children and education, growth management, farmland
protection and urban growth boundaries, all issues pertaining to Oregon.
The guy has a lot of good ideas, and
is willing to work in a bipartisan manner. To portray his two terms as a failure is negative campaigning at its finest. If you want a straight shooter, I’d
vote for Kitzhaber. If I want tax advice,
I’ll call Dudley.
Robert Smith
La Pine

Keep Wyden
Sen. Ron Wyden is an important
member of the U.S. Senate. He has
worked hard to reach the opinions and
needs of his constituents, was the leader of a balanced, bipartisan group of
senators to develop a well-researched
health insurance plan during the Bush
administration on into the present, and
has worked to help overcome the many
problems encountered by our veterans.
He is well-known for working
“across the aisle,” has an excellent
reputation in the Senate, and, for that
reason, is recognized and respected by
U.S. citizens across the country. His
seniority under these circumstances
has helped keep Oregon strong.
We need him in office.
Mary Cope
Bend

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here have been two issues that
have maintained a steady presence in media lately: the mosque
at ground zero and burning the Quran.
In the newspaper recently, there
was an article that piqued my interest
in which I read, “Abdul Rauf, who has
been the imam of a mosque 12 blocks
from the World Trade Center since 1983
…” I did not include the rest of the letter
because my point rests in this sentence
— 12 blocks away from the World Trade
Center. Allow me to think this through
here.
There are approximately 1,462
mosques in the United States (answers.
com, according to a 2007 survey done
by the Muslim Group of America), and
there are approximately 100 mosques
in New York City (didyouknow.org), yet

those who oppose the mosque are intolerant, Islamophobic, hateful, ignorant,
racist (the list goes on) for asking that
the mosque not be built at ground zero?
Really? And from these bridge-building, peace-seeking individuals, we have
threats here and abroad of violence if
they are not able to build the mosque in
this particular location?
I’m curious. How many Christian
churches are in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran?
What happens to those who are found
carrying a Bible or wearing a cross in a
region where Islam prevails? What if I
were to propose the building of a Christian church in such a region — wouldn’t
it be a bit nervy of me to impose my
beliefs on them, in their backyard? Yet
they threaten us when we voice our opposition to this mosque at ground zero,
in our own country?
Unlike previous letters, I do not claim

IN MY VIEW
to write from any point of view but my
own. This issue stirs my emotions and
leads to a frustration that there is so
much more at play here than the right to
build or protection of religious freedom.
These terms are masking what is truly
at the center of this debate — is it insensitive to build the mosque in this particular site? Would building in the name of
peace and tolerance be better served by
moving the mosque to another location?
Are not peace and tolerance sacrificed
by pushing ahead in such a bullish manner? And if this mosque truly is being
built as a bridge to peace and to promote
a greater knowledge of Islam, are not
the threats of violence if the mosque is
not built in this site a hindrance to this
end?

It is unfortunate that as this mosque
debate intensified, we had an individual
threaten to burn the Quran on the anniversary of 9/11, bringing the issue of
how we relate to the Muslim world and
Islamic faith to an alarming crescendo.
While I do not support the burning of
the Quran, it would be refreshing to see
an outpouring of support when our beliefs and freedoms are compromised.
We live in a country where a crucifix
can be placed in a jar of urine and called
art. We can burn the American flag, and
it is called freedom of speech. Illegal immigrants can protest our immigration
policies and demand rights in our cities without fear — heck, they are supported by our own administration — yet
reasonable opposition to the mosque at
ground zero is somehow un-American,
and the thought of burning the Quran
causes an uprising of opposition the

likes of which I have not seen. Did the
threats of violence against not only this
pastor, but against the United States and
our soldiers, make anyone wonder if
our message of tolerance (appeasement
and weakness would be more accurate
terms) is effective in this world climate?
This should make us all take pause
when we evaluate how to move forward
in this arena.
We are foolhardy if we believe that
showing tolerance in a climate where
none is shown to us will win over our
enemies, and we will sacrifice our freedom in the process.
If we continue to put tolerance and
political correctness above all else when
determining our priorities, we will protect the interests of all others at the expense of our own.
Andrea Gorman lives in Bend.

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Norman
Wisdom,
British
funnyman,
dies at 95
New York Times News Service
Norman Wisdom, one of
Britain’s best-loved cinematic
clowns, who also earned a
Tony nomination on Broadway, died Monday on the Isle
of Man. He was 95. He had
continued performing until
he was 90.
His family
conf ir med
the death to
The Associated Press.
An elfin
man of doleful
mien,
Wisdom
was often Norman
d e s c r i b e d Wisdom
as the right- in 1965
ful heir to
Charlie
Chaplin. For six decades he
reigned as one of Britain’s
most celebrated comics, appearing in nearly 20 films and
many television shows as well
as in live performances.
His films shown in the United States include “Trouble in
Store” (1953) and “Follow a
Star” (1959). He was also featured in the Hollywood picture “The Night They Raided
Minsky’s” (1968).

On Broadway
Wisdom appeared in two
Broadway shows, most notably in the musical “Walking
Happy,” for which he received
a Tony nomination.
The show, which ran for
161 performances in 1966 and
1967, had music by Jimmy
Van Heusen and lyrics by
Sammy Cahn.
He later starred in the
comedy “Not Now, Darling,”
which ran briefly in 1970.
Reviewing “Walking Happy” in The New York Times,
Walter Kerr called Wisdom
“a zany original with ruffled
hair, rueful eyes and an altogether irresistible appeal.”

Aug. 2, 1944 - Oct. 2, 2010
Edwin Lavern Hill passed
away on October 2, 2010, after suffering a stroke. He was
born in Pendleton, Oregon, on
August 2, 1944, to Wilbern
Archi Hill and Gladys Mae
(Casebeer) Hill. He moved
from Heppner, Oregon, to
Portland, Oregon, when he
was six years old, but always
called Heppner his home. He
graduated from Sunset High
School, in Portland, Oregon,
in 1962.
While working for X-Ray,
Inc., in Portland, Oregon, he
met and married Rhoda G.
Work on September 20, 1969.
In 1973, after the births of his
children, he started Processor Chemical Services, Inc. a
medical X-ray service and
supplies company, in the
family’s garage. The business
grew steadily over the years,
as did his reputation for quality, honesty, and fairness in
the
X-ray
community
throughout the state. The
business was sold in 1998,
allowing him to retire to
Bend, Oregon, and also enjoy
the family cabin in the
Ochoco Mountains.
He had a lifelong love of the
outdoors and hunting in Oregon. He made four hunting
trips to Africa and several to
Canada and Alaska. He enjoyed fixing anything and
working in his woodshop
where he was known for his
handmade jewelry boxes. He
also supported a number of
organizations by participating in and donating to their
causes.
He was a life member of the
Rocky Mountain Elk foundation, and a member of Safari
Club Int’l, Oregon Hunters’
Assoc. and B.P.O.E. (Elks). He
supported the High Desert
Museum,
Oregon
Public
Broadcasting, The Nature
Conservancy,
Smithsonian
Institution,
Oregon
Food
Bank, Humane Society of
Central Oregon and the
AARP Foundation.
Ed is survived by his wife,
Rhoda; son, Michael Edwin
(Mindi), Klamath Falls, OR;
son, Timothy Alan, Beaverton, OR; sister, June Evans,
Aloha, OR; sister, Joan Jarvis,
Beaverton, OR; brother, Larry
Hill, Portland, OR; uncle,
Marvin
Casebeer;
aunt,
Alvina Padberg; aunt, Joyce
Breeding;
many
cousins,
nieces, nephews, and extended family members; and
his dog, Mollie.
A celebration of Ed’s life
will be held at a later date. In
lieu of flowers, contributions
may be made to the Rocky
Mountain Elk Foundation,
5705
Grant
Creek
Rd.,
Missoula, MT 59808, or to a
charity of choice.

Ex-congresswomen McCarthy, 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Karen
McCarthy, the former English
teacher turned five-term member of Congress, died Tuesday
afternoon of complications from
Alzheimer’s disease.
She was 63. She was single
and had no children.
McCarthy, a longtime resident of the Kansas City, Mo.,
Roanoke neighborhood, championed the environment, public
education, women’s rights and
an expansion of prescriptiondrug coverage under Medicare
during a career in public office that spanned nearly three
decades.
“It’s a human tragedy,” said
David Westbrook, a McCarthy
friend of 40 years. “It’s a tragic
event in the life of an individual who really cared and really
tried.”

Emmy-winning filmmaker
Marshall Flaum dies at 85
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
LOS ANGELES — Marshall Flaum, an award-winning producer, director and
writer who specialized in
documentaries, died Friday at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
in Los Angeles of complications after hip surgery, his
family said. He was 85.
Flaum won five Emmy
Awards, had several more
nominations and was twice
nominated for an Academy
Award, for the documentaries “The Yanks Are Coming
(1963) and “Let My People Go:
The Story of Israel” (1965).
Flaum wrote, directed and produced both documentaries.
“His flair for drama and entertainment made those documentaries stand out,” said his
daughter, Erica, a film editor.
“His view of history was very
cultural and not very dry. …
It was very important to him
to have some kind of historical story. You always had the
feeling of the times.”

William C. Patrick III, one of
the chief scientists at the Army
Biological Warfare Laboratories
at Fort Detrick and who was responsible for overseeing the military’s top-secret weaponization
of some of the world’s deadliest
diseases, including anthrax and
tularemia, died of bladder cancer
Oct. 1 at Citizens Nursing Home
in Frederick, Md. He was 84.
Patrick held five classified U.S.
patents for the process of weaponizing anthrax.
He was chief of the development program at Fort Detrick in
Frederick for much of the Cold
War.
In the 1960s, Patrick led the
highly classified weaponization
of tularemia, a disease he considered superior to anthrax as
a biological agent because of its
potency.
Under Patrick’s direction,
scientists at Fort Detrick developed a tularemia agent that, if
disseminated by airplane, could
cause casualties and sickness
over thousands of square miles,
according to tests carried out by
the U.S. government.
Some experts believed that
the research showed biological
weapons could be as devastating
as a nuclear blast. In a 10,000square-mile range, the biological
weapon had a 90 percent casualty rate and 50 percent fatality
rate, capable of killing its hosts

Olivia de Havilland in “Romeo
and Juliet” while studying with
acting teacher Lee Strasberg.
In 1957 Flaum joined CBS and
worked as a writer, story editor
and associate producer on “The
Twentieth Century.” He twice
won Emmys for writing segments of the program.
Flaum moved to Hollywood in
1962 to work for David L. Wolper’s company, where his other
credits included “The Battle of
Britain” and “Hollywood: The
Selznick Years.”

Work with Cousteau
His work with Jacques Cousteau resulted in two Emmys
as executive producer of “The
Unsinkable Sea Otter” and “A
Sound of Dolphins,” episodes of
“The Undersea World of Jacques
Cousteau.” Flaum also won an
Emmy as executive producer
of “Jane Goodall and the World
of Animal Behavior: The Wild
Dogs of Africa.”

form of Alzheimer’s disease. At
the time, she was also said to be
dealing with a bipolar disorder
that apparently went undiagnosed for at least a decade.
“She’s one of the most vibrant political figures I’ve ever
known,” said Alan Wheat, the
Democrat who held Missouri’s
5th Congressional District
seat before McCarthy. “It was
more than her intense interest
in issues and policy. It was her
character and personality. She
was truly interested in reaching out to all people and getting
them involved in the political
system.”
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver,
who succeeded McCarthy in
2004, lauded her as a “consummate public servant from her
days as a schoolteacher through
the time she served in the Missouri General Assembly.”

Cleaver described her as
“unashamedly liberal in her
theology of politics. She never
violated her belief in progressive causes.” That included what
Cleaver called McCarthy’s principled stand against the Iraq
war in 2002.
“She stood up and voted no
at a time when voting no meant
that you would get hate calls,”
he said. “She never hesitated at
all in doing that.”
Her career in Congress was
marred by a much-publicized
battle with alcoholism that led
to staff turnover and caused her
to seek treatment in 2003.
“I deeply regret my behavior
and, as difficult as it is, recognize that my drinking has hurt
those who I am closest to, those
I love and work with,” McCarthy said at the time. “I have hit
bottom.”

Joseph “Zeke” J. Zarosinski
June 27, 1957 – September 28, 2010
Joseph J. “Zeke” of Bend passed away peacefully with his family by
his side on September 28, 2010, due to complications after surgery.
Joe was born on June 27, 1957, in Klamath Falls, OR, to Raymond
and Millie (Motschenbacher) Zarosinski. In 1975, he graduated
from Klamath Union High School, where he was a 3-sport athlete,
sang in Madrigals, and was elected class president in his senior
year. After high school, he moved to Bend and worked for his dad
at Zarosinski Industries as a salesman. It was during this time Joe
developed his passion for golf and softball. On October 21, 1989, Joe
married Shelley (Crandall) Malone in Bend where they raised their
children, sons, Devon Malone and Jerome Zarosinski. For several
years he coached youth athletics, little league and basketball. Above
all, Joe was known for his sense of humor, “celebrations”, generous
heart, love of his family, friends and beloved pets.
Joe is preceded in death by his father, Ray and his brother, Donnie.
Joe is survived by his wife, Shelley; sons, Devon of Portland, Jerome
(girlfriend, Justine Lumley) of Bend. Other survivors include his
mother, Millie Zarosinski of Bend; brother, Dr. Doug (wife, Gail)
Zarosinski of Lafayette, LA; sisters, “TZ” (husband, John) Fargason
and Judy (husband, Larry) Mehlmauer, both of Medford; In-laws,
Don and Marlene Crandall of Bend; and many aunts,
uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews and friends; and his
beloved dog, “Poncho” and cat, “Little Kitty”.
A Celebration of Life and urn committal will be
at 1:00 pm on October 9, at Deschutes Memorial
Gardens, 63875 N. Hwy 97, Bend, OR.
Due to Joe’s sudden passing, donations to help pay
for funeral expenses in lieu of flowers would be
appreciated and may be sent to Shelley MaloneZarosinksi, 1319 NE Thompson, Bend, OR, 97701.
Baird Funeral Home of Bend is in charge of arrangements (541)382-0903.

Served in WWII
Marshall Allen Flaum was
born Sept. 13, 1925, in Brooklyn. After serving in the Army
during World War II, he studied acting at the University
of Iowa, where he graduated
with a bachelor’s degree in
1948.
After college, he appeared
on Broadway with Basil Rathbone in “Julius Caesar” and

William C. Patrick, 84,
expert on bio-warfare
The Washington Post

Mc C a r t hy
died at Garden Terrace
at Overland
Park, Kan., an
A l zhei mer ’s
center.
She rose to
Karen
become presiMcCarthy
dent of the Nain 1997
tional Conference of State
Legislatures
in 1994 and, that same year,
easily defeated 10 other Democratic candidates to cruise into
Congress.
Harper’s Bazaar magazine
once listed her, along with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Condoleezza Rice, as a potential
first female president.
But in June 2009, her family
announced that McCarthy was
suffering from an advanced

within hours of infection.
The Fort Detrick biowarfare
program was started in the early
1940s under President Franklin
D. Roosevelt after the Allies received intelligence reports that
the Germans and Japanese were
pursuing biological weapons.
Patrick joined the effort in
1951 and became chief of the development program in 1965.

LOUISE A. GERLACH
REDMOND – Louise A. Gerlach (Butterfield) 87, died of natural
causes Saturday, October 2, 2010. She was born December 25,
1922 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of the late
Clarence and Ruth Butterfield. She grew up in Massachusetts.
After leaving Massachusetts she went to Glenwood Springs,
Colorado where she met Robert (Bob) Gerlach, her future
husband while working in the U.S.O. during WWII. Louise
married Bob, March 8, 1946 in McMinnville, Oregon. She lived
in numerous locations in Oregon before moving to Rawlins,
Wyoming in 1972. She moved back to Oregon in 1980.
Louise was very active in Daughters of Nile, Rebekahs,
Amaranth, Eastern Star and Jobs Daughters. She loved performing vintage-style shows and singing
gay ninety songs in Oregon and Wyoming. She was past president or chair of many community and
county organizations.
Louise is survived by her four children, Donald of Federal Way, Washington, Richard of Anacortes,
Washington, Gerald of Redmond, Oregon and Lisa of Attleboro, Massachusetts along with eight
grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in
death by her husband Bob of 62 years, her two brothers James and Robert and her parents.
Friends and relatives are invited to a memorial service on Saturday, October 9, 2010 at 11:00 am at
the Redmond Masonic Center #154, located at 627 SW 7th Street, Redmond, Oregon. Refreshments
will follow afterwards.

Dua ine J . “ Bud” Birk hofe r — August 1 2 , 1 9 2 4 - Octobe r 4 , 2 0 1 0
On August 12, 1924 Hans and Doris (Mathys) Birkhofer welcomed their son “Bud” into the world in Dow City, Iowa. In 1936 the Birkhofer
family traveled to Ajlune, WA. Life in rural Western Washington was hard recovering from The Great Depression, but the work ethic that was
instilled by his father and mother lasted Bud’s entire life. Bud was a 3-year letterman in baseball at Mossyrock High School. Bud was an avid
baseball fan his entire life and was thrilled to have attended a professional baseball game in Seattle at the Kingdome.
In 1942 Bud and two friends from Mossyrock, WA enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Bud was selected to be a part of the slowspeed radio communication battalion. He proudly served with the 3rd Radio Intelligence Platoon in the Marshall Islands intercepting Japanese code. This elite unit broke the code where Japanese Admiral Hirohito was travelling and, subsequently, Hirohito was shot down by
American pilots. This has been reported to have been the beginning of the end of Japanese involvement in WWII. Bud and his wife, Gayle,
attended many reunions of the 3rd Radio Intelligence Platoon.
Bud and Gayle were the proud parents of three children. John (Penny) of Boring, OR, Keith (Sheila) of Winlock, WA and Launi (Bruce)
Cross of Redmond. Numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren gave Bud and Gayle a lot of joy in their lives. Bud is survived by two
wonderful sisters and brothers-in-law, Marilyn and Bob Swanson, Alexandria, VA and Bernice and Warren Quinn, of Kenmore, WA.
Bud followed his father’s love of animals and was a partner with Hans in several farms and dairies. Bud was an avid reader his entire
life. He worked for Stocklin Supply Company as a salesman of animal health products for many years. In 1976 Bud was one of the original
owners of Central Oregon Ranch Supply. After selling his ownership of CORS, he was a frequent visitor and advisor to the store’s owners.
Bud’s love of the livestock industry was evident as he attended most ranch auctions in Central Oregon and was a sought-after advisor
to many ranchers. Bud’s quick wit and jokes will be missed by all who knew him. Bud always enjoyed being in attendance at the Red Bluff
Bull and Gelding Sale and especially the sale at Thomas Angus Ranch. Bud and Bob Thomas attended grade school in Iowa together and
were life-long friends.
A memorial service will be held at Redmond Memorial Chapel, 717 SW 6th Street, Redmond on Saturday, October 9th at 1:00 PM.
In lieu of flowers please consider making a donation to the Marine Corps League or The Oregon Humane Society. Sign our guest book at
www.redmondmemorial.com

Bear is killed after attempting third break-in
By Mark Freeman
Medford Mail Tribune

CAVE JUNCTION — A burglarizing black bear that broke
into an 85-year-old woman’s rural Cave Junction house twice
over the weekend was trapped
by state biologists and killed after it returned for a third time
early Tuesday.
The 250-pound male bear
twice clawed through Laverne
Potter’s front door to get at her
stash of rice and dried vegetables, ransacking the place in the
process.
Potter confronted the bear late

Sunday night with a shotgun,
but the bear hot-footed it through
the broken door before any shots
were fired.

Prepared to shoot
“If I had to take him out, I
would have,” Potter told the Medford Mail Tribune.
“I’m a vegetarian and I’ve
never killed anything in my life,”
Potter said. “(But) to have him
break in and throw my stuff all
over the place was scary.”
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife biologist Mark Var-

gas said he later fatally shot the
bear and took the carcass to a local butcher for processing.
“The bear, obviously, was not
afraid of people and not afraid of
going into houses,” Vargas said.
The meat will either be donated to an area food pantry that
will give it to needy families or it
will be given directly to a qualified family that covers the processing costs, which normally
run about $100, Vargas said.
“I was sorry I couldn’t say just
to turn it loose because it would
have broken into someone else’s
house,” Potter said. “I was afraid

my neighbor could be the next
one.”
Potter said it was the first time
she had experienced any bear
problems during her 30 years of
living along the East Fork of the
Illinois River.

Clawed through door
Her ordeal began abruptly
Saturday night when the bear
clawed through her stained-glass
door and hauled away two 5-gallon buckets containing rice and
dried split peas, Potter said.
“It was terrible,” she said. “It

just took its paws and slapped
everything around.”
Potter had a friend board up
the door and she played a radio
loudly in the living room in hopes
of keeping the burglarizing bruin away, she said. But all that did
was keep her awake — and the
animal sneaked in when she finally fell asleep, Potter said.
Potter was armed when the
pair came face to face, but said
she would have shot the bear
only in defense.
Vargas on Monday placed
the department’s large bear box
trap, which is welded to a trailer,

in front of Potter’s porch. He
baited it with dead fish.
Early Tuesday, the bear crept
onto Potter’s porch and knocked
over some furniture before backtracking to the trap, she said.
When it stepped far enough in,
its paws triggered the gate to
drop shut and end its adventures
at the home.
The wildlife department has
logged a threefold increase in
bear damage reports this year in
Jackson and Josephine counties,
with bears breaking into houses
in and around Ashland, Grants
Pass, Williams and Eagle Point.

S

College Football Inside
Oregon State will face its third top-10 team
of the season on Saturday, see Page D5.

www.bendbulletin.com/sports

THE BULLETIN • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010

L O C A L LY
Youth basketball
clinics slated
this month in Bend
The Central Oregon Basketball Organization (COBO)
has scheduled a series of
youth basketball clinics for this
month in Bend.
The clinics are for boys
and girls and will be held on
three consecutive Sundays
starting with this Sunday (Oct.
10), all at Mountain View High
School.
Sessions for seventh- and
eighth-graders will run from
4 to 6 p.m. Sessions for fifthand sixth-graders will run from
6 to 8 p.m.
Cost for all three clinic sessions is $40; registration is
through the Bend Park & Recreation District, 541-389-7275.
For more information,
contact Craig Reid at 541-3188014 or at creid@bendcable.
com.
—Bulletin staff report

Sisters tops Junction City,
stays undefeated in league
Bulletin staff report
SISTERS — The reigning Class
4A state champion Sisters Outlaws
are starting to get hot.
Not only have the Outlaws won
five consecutive Sky-Em League
volleyball matches, but Sisters
has not dropped a game in its last
four victories. Wednesday’s league
match against Junction City was
much of the same as the Outlaws
made quick work the Tigers, 25-11,
25-8 and 25-15.
“We had control of the match
from the get-go,” said Sisters coach

PREP
VOLLEYBALL
Diane Bremer.
Chelsea Reifschneider posted
10 kills for the Outlaws and Lizzy
Carhart added eight of her own as
Sisters improved to 5-0 in league
play.
Megan Minke tallied three
blocks for the Sky-Em’s only undefeated team while setter Kaity
Douglass was all over the floor,
producing 34 assists, four kills and

No more
late nights?
Pac-10
considers
scheduling
By John Marshall
The Associated Press

INSIDE

ALDS (best of five)
• Texas Rangers at Tampa Bay
Rays, 11:37 a.m. (TBS); Rangers
lead series, 1-0
• New York Yankees at Minnesota
Twins, 3:07 p.m. (TBS); Yankees
lead series 1-0
NLDS (best of five)
• Atlanta Braves at San Francisco
Giants, 6:37 p.m. (TBS); first game
of series

Biketoberfest, an annual
Central Oregon fall work party
during which volunteers help
build and maintain local
singletrack mountain bike
trails, takes place this Saturday.
The event, organized by the
Central Oregon Trail Alliance
(COTA), this year will focus on
trails in the Wanoga area.
Volunteers are asked to
gather Saturday at 9 a.m. at
the corner of Simpson and
Colorado avenues in Bend.
Drinking water, safety glasses, work gloves and sturdy
shoes are required. Following
the trail work, a barbecue will
be held for volunteers at 2
p.m.
For more information, go to
www.cotamtb.com.
— Bulletin staff report

Today

Sisters’
Kristina
Johns (5)
blocks a
shot by
Junction
City’s
Breanna
Haney
during the
first game
of a Sky-Em
League
match on
Wednesday
in Sisters.

11 digs. Bremer also praised the
serving performance of Samantha
Williamson, who was 17 of 18 from
the line with two aces.
The Tigers (2-3 Sky-Em) were
led by Holly Gibson’s six kills and
Olivia Borden’s three blocks.
Sisters, whose only challenge
in league play so far this year was
a 3-2 win over Sweet Home, will
compete in a tournament at Seaside on Saturday.
A pivotal Sky-Em match awaits
the Outlaws next Tuesday when
the Outlaws host Sweet Home.

Trail work party
set for Saturday

MLB
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Gary Lewis / For The Bulletin

Greg Gulbrandsen, left, of Bend, and Steve Leonard, of Washougal, Wash., admire a jack chinook taken on the Columbia River at the mouth of the Klickitat River.

Big river,
bright salmon

Some of the best fishing of the
year in the Pacific Northwest
is in October on the Columbia

W

ith the bow of the boat
pointed upriver, we drifted
down. Wavelets, stirred by
a light morning breeze, lapped at the
boat. Steve Leonard kept his hand on
the kicker motor in case we needed to
change direction or correct the drift.
Across from Hood River, at the
mouth of the White Salmon River, we
drifted our eggs through a school of what must have been
1,000 salmon in a drift 400 yards long. They porpoised,
they splashed, they pecked at our Pro-Cured baits.
Over the flat bottom of the Columbia, downstream
from the tributary’s mouth, “hovering” is an easy tech-

GARY
LEWIS

nique to master. Drop the rig down,
let the ball bounce on the bottom then
crank it up one turn of the reel. On a
30-inch leader, the gob of salmon roe
runs at an angle. Salmon — fall chinook and silvers — either move out of
the way or mouth the bait and pick it
back up again.
Up top, we tried to discern the difference between the peck of a peamouth and the pluck
of a chinook. Perched in the bow, Marc Marcantonio set
the hook and manhandled a 4-pound jack chinook to the
boat.
See River / D5

PHOENIX — Oregon coach
Chip Kelly liked the idea of moving the start of his team’s game
against Stanford up three hours
because fans in Eugene didn’t
have to wait all day to see the
game, then face a drive home
late at night.
Other than that, Kelly could
have cared less; he’ll play
anytime.
“I have absolutely no say in
the scheduling,” he said. “If you
want to play at 3 a.m., I’ll play at
3 a.m. I don’t care.”
The Pac-10’s new leadership
had a different perspective.
They were thrilled with the time
change because of the exposure
it gave the conference.
Had the game gone off at its
original time of 8:15 p.m. PDT,
it would have started after some
East Coasters were already in
bed and ended well after last
call.
By moving kickoff up to 5:15
p.m., No. 9 Stanford at No. 4
Oregon became a prime-time
showcase — one not involving
those Trojans — that served as
the capper to a day filled with
premier games.
“A year ago when I started in
this role, I was told by a lot of
people that nationally people
see USC and don’t see the depth
of the conference after that,”
Pac-10 Commissioner Larry
Scott said.
“To have a year later, Stanford
and Oregon be the game that has
the most interest in a week with
the Red River Rivalry, FloridaAlabama and other important
games makes a big statement of
where the Pac-10 is at, how it’s
seen and the fact that we have
two potential national contenders playing.”
See Pac-10 / D5

Playoffs open with historic
no-hitter by Phillies’ Halladay
By Tyler Kepner
New York Times News Service

PHILADELPHIA — In a glass case at Citizens
Bank Park is a bronze cast of Roy Halladay’s
right hand. It holds an official baseball, stamped
with a hologram, commemorating his perfect
game in May.
Halladay did not allow a runner to reach base
that night, and the Philadelphia Phillies must
have thought that was the greatest game he could
pitch.
But considering the setting Wednesday, he
found a way to top himself.
Halladay threw the second no-hitter in postseason history and the first since Don Larsen’s

perfect game for the New York Yankees in the
1956 World Series. Halladay thwarted the Cincinnati Reds, the top-scoring team in the National
League this season, in a 4-0 victory in Game 1 of
their division playoff series.
He allowed only one baserunner, on a walk to
Jay Bruce with two outs in the fifth inning, and
only a few hard-hit balls. He struck out eight, with
exceptional command of his two-seam fastball,
cutter, curveball and changeup. The game was
bound to be memorable for Halladay, a decorated
right-hander who had labored for 12 years with
the also-ran Toronto Blue Jays until a trade to the
Phillies in December.
See Halladay / D4

Rob Carr / The Associated Press

Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Roy Halladay, left, celebrates with catcher Carlos Ruiz after throwing a no-hitter to
defeat the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 during Game 1 of baseball’s
National League Division Series, Wednesday in Philadelphia.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When David Reutimann
intentionally wrecked Kyle Busch at Kansas Speedway, the payback for an earlier incident cost Busch
significantly in the championship standings.
It also reignited a serious debate about how drivers who aren’t eligible for the title should race drivers who are competing in the Chase for the Sprint
Cup championship.
Contact between Busch and Reutimann caused
Reutimann to wreck early in the race, and he sent
Busch into the wall as retaliation about 100 laps later. Busch was running seventh at the time, finished
21st and dropped from third to seventh in the Chase
standings.
He wondered after the race why Reutimann had
to retaliate when Busch has so much on the line.
“For a guy that’s in the Chase, that’s racing for
something? He’ll be here next year, he could have
wrecked me in any of the first 26 races next year.
That would have been fine,” Busch said.
But Reutimann didn’t wait, arguing this week he
didn’t have the luxury of being wrecked by Busch at
a more convenient time.
“I had a dang good race car, and I didn’t have an
opportunity to have a choice of when I wanted to get
wrecked or how I wanted to get wrecked,” he said.
The conversation coming out of Kansas has centered around the many elements of Reutimann’s actions. Not too many people are hung up on whether
or not he had the right to send a message to Busch.
Instead, it’s the day of delivery that’s receiving so
much scrutiny.
NASCAR’s championship format puts just 12
drivers in contention for the title over the final 10
races of the season. Only the Chase drivers are
racing against the full field, and everybody on the
track has their own personal agendas.
There are drivers outside the Chase trying to win
races, attract sponsors and line up jobs for next season. Every finishing position is critical, and nobody
has a desire to pull over for a Chase driver.
Reutimann’s team owner argued this week that
the drivers not racing for the championship have
every reason to race as hard as possible.
“There are 43 drivers on the race track each Sunday, and there is no delineation between Chase participants and non-Chase participants when it comes
to respect,” Michael Waltrip said.
The issue has been apparent since the opening
race of the inaugural 2004 Chase. Robby Gordon
and Greg Biffle got into a game of bumper-cars at
New Hampshire, and Gordon’s intentional retaliation collected Chase drivers Tony Stewart and Jeremy Mayfield. Their championship chances were
ruined before the halfway point of the first Chase
race, and the debate over scoring championship
contenders on their own points system has raged
ever since.
NASCAR has never moved to adopt a separate
points system, but non-Chase drivers have tried to
be more careful in the years since.
“When I wasn’t in the Chase, I would just be
aware of my surroundings,” said Biffle. “I was cognizant of racing Chase guys and really making sure
I didn’t make a mistake and take one out. For personal reasons, I don’t want to be the guy who lost
control of my car and hit a guy for a no reason.”
Four-time defending series champion Jimmie
Johnson said he’s never really noticed drivers pulling over and letting him go by without incident just
because he’s racing for a title.
“The whole theory on etiquette is you race people
how they race you,” Johnson said. “I have to say that
as a Chase driver, there are times where I wish guys
would cut me some slack and recognize that I’m in
the Chase. But then once I climb out of the car and
really think about it, they’re trying to do everything
they can as well, for their jobs and their sponsors.”
NASCAR has taken a more relaxed stand this
season under the “Boys, have at it” policy of allowing drivers to self-police themselves. In years past,
Reutimann likely would been have punished by
NASCAR immediately after the accident.
But NASCAR took no action Sunday, and series
director John Darby indicated there would be no serious follow-up.
“We’ll follow up at the track, but the thing that’s
easy to get mixed up is there are 43 drivers on the
racetrack, not just 12,” Darby said.
So Busch will move ahead to California this
weekend knowing that if not for a dustup with
Reutimann, he’d be in much better shape in the
Chase. He’s probably blaming Reutimann for that,
but Biffle said Chase drivers have their own responsibility to stay out of trouble. Had Busch not spun
Reutimann, Biffle said, the payback never would
have occurred.
“Be careful,” Biffle said. “Why even put yourself
in a position to spin somebody with so much on the
line?”

Sisters girls soccer still
perfect after Sky-Em win
Bulletin staff report
JUNCTION CITY — Opponents of
undefeated Sisters are getting frustrated in their attempts to hand the
Outlaws their first girls soccer defeat
of the season.
In a match Wednesday marred by
a fight in the second half, Sisters improved to 9-0 overall and 6-0 in the
Sky-Em League with a 4-1 road victory at Junction City.
The Outlaws lit up the scoreboard
just two minutes into the match on an
unassisted goal by Natalie Ambrose.
In the 16th minute Haley Carlson
scored on an assist from Jodie Reoch
to put the visitors up 2-0. Four minutes later, Reoch scored a goal of her
own to make the score 3-0.
Junction City responded with a
goal on a penalty kick in the 25th
minute to narrow Sisters’ lead to 3-1,
but Kelly Cole finished the scoring
eight minutes later, recording a goal
on a corner kick delivered by Reoch.
After the scuffle in the second half,
both sides were reduced to 10 players due to a red card being issued to
each team. Sisters, which is averaging nearly six goals a game in its best
start in school history, plays at home
next Tuesday against Cottage Grove
(5-1 Sky-Em).
In other prep action Wednesday:
GIRLS SOCCER
La Pine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Elmira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
ELMIRA — The Hawks snapped a
five-match losing streak and scored
more than one goal in a game for
the first time this season to earn the
road draw. “We were missing three
starters and the other kids absolutely
stepped up,” said La Pine coach Scott
Winslow. Haylee Plotner scored both
goals for the Hawks, just four minutes
apart late in the first half. The first
tally was in the 35th minute and the
second goal came moments before
the break from an assist by freshman
Jocelyn Gerdau, who was playing in
just her second varsity game. With
only two substitutes, La Pine struggled in the second half as the Falcons
scored twice to tie the game. The
Hawks (0-4-2 Sky-Em, 0-6-2 overall)
host Junction City on Monday.
BOYS SOCCER
Sisters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Junction City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
SISTERS — Colby Gilmore scored
the first goal of the game and assisted
on the second to guide the Outlaws
to their fourth consecutive Sky-Em
League victory. In the second minute of the contest, Gilmore headed in
a Jake McAllister pass to put Sisters
ahead 1-0. In the 64th minute, Gilmore assisted on Evan Rickards’ score
to give the Outlaws a 2-0 lead. Sisters
(4-1 Sky-Em, 6-3 overall) is at Cottage
Grove on Tuesday.
VOLLEYBALL
Sweet Home. . . . . . . . . . . . 25-26-25-25
La Pine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-24-27-15
LA PINE — Despite falling to 0-5
in Sky-Em League play, the Hawks

PUTTING THE HAMMER DOWN

Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

Sisters’ Lizzy Carhart slams the ball past a Junction City defender during
the first game of Wednesday’s Sky-Em League match in Sisters. Sisters
won the match in three games. See story, Page D1.
played one of their best matches of
the season, according to La Pine
coach Aaron Mallory. Meagan
McReynolds posted 12 kills and a
block, Carly Roderick added six kills
and five blocks and Dessirae Stinson
contributed four kills and a block in
the league loss. Jen Pautz dished out
27 assists and went 12 of 13 from the
service line with two aces, while Sarah Alford recorded three blocks of
her own for La Pine. The Hawks are
at a tournament in Junction City on
Saturday.
Regis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25-25-25
Culver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-18-16
STAYTON — Culver’s three-match
win streak came to an end with the
Tri-River Conference defeat to Regis,
which is undefeated and in first place
in the Class 2A league. Emilee Zachary posted eight kills for Culver while
Kelsie Stafford added five kills and
nine digs. The Bulldogs (7-3 Tri-Riv-

er) play at East Linn on Tuesday.
CROSS COUNTRY
Sisters runner takes fifth
SALEM — Senior Taylor Steele
was the first Outlaw across the finish line in the boys 5,000-meter race
at the Star City XClassic, finishing in
fifth place for Sisters with a time of 16
minutes and 57 seconds. Seth Flanders and Mason Calmettes both posted times of 17:56, and the Outlaws
finished in fourth place as a team.
The best time for the Sisters girls was
provided by Zoe Falk, who finished
in 13th place (21:20). The Outlaws
finished in eighth place in the girls
event. “It was kind of our last real
training meet of the season and the
kids are where we want them to be
right now,” said Sisters coach Charlie Kanzig. “We look forward to the
important meets later this month.”
The Outlaws are at Philomath on
Saturday.

Is a ‘world tour’ on the horizon for pros?
The Associated Press

NEWPORT, Wales — PGA Tour
commissioner Tim Finchem expects
some form of a “world tour” in golf
in the future, even if he’s not around
when it takes shape.
Europe already has one, with sanctioned tournaments on five continents.
The PGA Tour is going to Malaysia
later this month, returns to Shanghai
for a World Golf Championship and
has Japan on its wish list.
The trick is to get everyone on the
same page.
“I think that at some point in time,
men’s professional golf will become
integrated globally,” Finchem said.
“Now, what form that takes, whether
it’s a total integration, whether it’s a
FIFA-type, I don’t know. One question
is how the competition is organized.
Another question is how the organizational structure behind it is organized. The first one is the key thing.”
One reason Finchem believes a
world tour is inevitable is marketing
and sponsorship, which includes the
players. Phil Mickelson is sponsored
by Barclays, which promotes tournaments in Singapore, Scotland and
New York. He is playing all of them
this year.
The U.S. tour also has such multinational title sponsors as Deutsche
Bank and BMW (both playoff events),
Accenture and Zurich.
“I think it’s a matter of time,”
Finchem said. “Golf generally is a
splintered sport, multi-organizational
at every level. But there’s movement.
The last 15 years there’s been a lot of
movement. I would see that continuing to develop toward integration.”
Even though the Ryder Cup com-

• Former national champ gets lifetime
ban: Former U.S. national pro cycling
champion Kirk O’Bee has received a lifetime suspension for a second doping offense. O’Bee, who spent the 2000 season
on Lance Armstrong’s U.S. Postal Service
team, received his first suspension after
testing positive for testosterone when
he won the national pro criterium title in
2001. He also won national titles in 1997
and 2007. His lifetime ban stems from an
arbitration decision released Wednesday
that upheld a positive EPO test from May
2009. The arbitration panel also upheld
evidence obtained by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that reflected O’Bee had actually committed a second doping offense,
using EPO and human growth hormone,
by 2005. All his records since 2005, including his 2007 national title, have been
forfeited.

Football

GOLF NOTEBOOK

By Doug Ferguson

Cycling

pleted a rugged stretch of golf — some
players competed seven out of nine
weeks, all big events — that doesn’t
mean the season is over. The Fall Series still has four tournaments left, although the focus shifts overseas.
Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Adam
Scott, K.J. Choi and Ryan Palmer
are among those planning to play the
tour’s event in Malaysia, which is cosanctioned with the Asian Tour. Then
it’s off to Shanghai for the HSBC
Champions, Singapore and onward to
Dubai for Europe, with Tiger Woods
heading Down Under again to defend
his title in the Australian Masters.
Integration can get tricky, for sure.
But it starts with cooperation.
The European Tour was the first
outside tour to set up golf in Asia, and
one year had more tournaments in
China than in Scotland. Now comes
the American tour looking to create
tournaments and opportunities for its
members.
Finchem says he and European
tour chief George O’Grady have been
“working together.”
“We’re not going to play a ton of
tournaments over there, so it shouldn’t
be a problem. George knows that,”
Finchem said. “We’re talking to him
constantly about what our plan would
be. My guess is it will result in us doing even more together.”

Pavin donation
U.S. Ryder Cup players and captains have donated more than $15 million, with $50,000 of their $200,000
charity allotment directed to the “Play
Golf America” program at the college
of their choice.
Oklahoma State received two such

donations, from Rickie Fowler and
Hunter Mahan. Georgia Tech also had
two players — Matt Kuchar and Stewart Cink — although Kuchar directed
his to the Coastal College of Georgia.
Phil Mickelson, who had been splitting his contribution between Arizona
State (his alma mater) and San Diego
(where his brother is the golf coach),
sent the entire donation to San Diego
this year.
The biggest surprise came from the
captain.
Corey Pavin, an All-American at
UCLA, sent his money to Grambling
State and Spellman College, two historically black colleges.
“We just thought it was something
we wanted to do,” Pavin said during
the matches. “We looked at several
programs and decided on these two.
There was really no other reason.”
The PGA of America sponsors the
PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship and has a program devoted
to diversity. PGA chief executive Joe
Steranka wasn’t surprised when he
saw the list of donations, noting that
Lisa Pavin is Vietnamese.
“Having a captain and his wife, a
multicultural couple raising a beautiful daughter, the commitment they
have made to historically minority
colleges shows people they have their
eyes wide open on the future of this
country and this sport,” Steranka
said.

Stat of the week
Graeme McDowell won a major in
June and won the decisive point in the
Ryder Cup in October. The last player
to do both in the same year was Tom
Watson in 1983.

• Redskins’ Portis out 4-6 weeks:
Clinton Portis will be out at least a month
with a groin injury, putting the two-time
Pro Bowl running back’s future in doubt
once again. His injury leaves the Washington Redskins with a very inexperienced
backfield, too. Coach Mike Shanahan said
Wednesday that Portis has a third degree
separation of the left groin, with the muscle separated off the bone. Portis will not
require surgery, and the coach estimated
a recovery time of four to six weeks.Portis
was hurt in Sunday’s 17-12 win over the
Philadelphia Eagles, when he was already
starting to share more of the rushing
load with Ryan Torain. Now the only two
healthy tailbacks on the roster are Torain
and Chad Simpson, who have combined
for 70 carries in their NFL careers heading
into this week’s game against the Green
Bay Packers.
• Jets’ Revis: Moss put ‘foot on brake’
in Week 2: Darrelle Revis is ready to play,
and you can bet Randy Moss hopes the
Jets cornerback is out there defending
him Monday night. Revis added another
chapter to their personal rivalry Wednesday, saying Moss — now with the Minnesota Vikings — eased up in the second
half of New England’s 28-14 loss to New
York three weeks ago. “He came out full
force, early in the game,” Revis said. “In
the second half, you could tell he was kind
of like putting his foot on the brake. But
everybody knows that’s Randy: sometimes he plays 100 percent, sometimes
he doesn’t.” Revis was limited at practice
Wednesday, but hopes to play after missing the last 2½ games with a strained
left hamstring. He was injured defending
Moss on a touchdown catch late in the
first half of the game in Week 2.
• NFL hits Browns safety Ward with
fine: T.J. Ward’s “cheap shot” was costly.
For delivering a nasty blow to an opponent’s head, the NFL belted the Browns’
rookie safety in the wallet. Ward, who in
just four games as a pro has developed a
reputation as a ferocious tackler and fearless talker, was fined $15,000 Wednesday
for his helmet-to-helmet hit on Cincinnati
wide receiver Jordan Shipley during the
fourth quarter of the Browns’ win on Sunday. Ward confirmed he was fined, but he
would not divulge the amount. However,
a person familiar with the situation told
The Associated Press that the league assessed Ward the $15,000 penalty for ramming Shipley, who was knocked out briefly
and sustained a concussion.
• Rookie QB Hall to start for Arizona:
Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt
has put his team’s struggling offense into
the hands of undrafted rookie quarterback
Max Hall. Whisenhunt announced after
Wednesday’s practice that the former
BYU standout would make his first NFL
start Sunday when the Cardinals are
home against the Super Bowl champion
New Orleans Saints, replacing the erratic
Derek Anderson. Hall is Arizona’s third
starting quarterback since training camp
opened. Anderson replaced Matt Leinart
in the third preseason game. That led to
Leinart’s release and left Hall as Anderson’s backup. The Cardinals are tied for
the NFC West lead at 2-2 but have been
outscored 82-17 in their two losses.

Golf
• Ozaki elected to Hall of Fame:
Jumbo Ozaki finally gets to celebrate in
America when he is inducted into the
World Golf Hall of Fame. Ozaki, who won
more than 100 tournaments and led the
Japan Golf Tour money list 12 times, was
elected Wednesday through the international ballot by receiving 50 percent of
the vote from a panel of journalists, golf
dignitaries and Hall of Fame members.
He will be inducted May 9 at the World
Golf Village in St. Augustine, Fla., along
with Ernie Els, Doug Ford, the late Jock
Hutchison and former President George
H.W. Bush. Ozaki had 111 victories, all
in Japan except for the New Zealand
PGA Championship in 1972. The knock
on Ozaki was that he never won in the
United States, although he had top 10s in
the Masters and U.S. Open. He joins Isao
Aoki as the only Japanese men in the
Hall of Fame.
• No. 1 heir Westwood not playing PGA
Tour in 2011: Lee Westwood says he will
not be a regular on the PGA Tour in the
U.S. next year, meaning Tiger Woods’
anticipated successor as the top-ranked
golfer will be based on the European
Tour. The 37-year-old Englishman said
Wednesday that he will put his family
first in 2011, remaining based in Europe
despite the millions more he could earn
competing for the FedEx Cup. His only
trips to America next year will be for the
majors, World Golf Championships and

occasional events that might help him prepare for those tournaments. “I’m not taking my card up in the States,” Westwood
said as he prepared for today’s start of the
Dunhill Links Championship.

Tennis
• Garcia-Lopez reaches Japan quarters: Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez
advanced to the quarterfinals of the Japan
Open in Tokyo with a 7-6 (5), 6-4 win
Wednesday over compatriot Feliciano
Lopez. Garcia-Lopez saved four break
points to defeat the sixth-seeded Lopez.
Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic
advanced with a 5-7, 7-6 (7) 4-1 win over
Marco Chiudinelli, who retired with a lower
back injury. Jarkko Nieminen of Finland
defeated Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-3, 76 (8). Dmitry Tursunov, ranked 432nd
after thee left ankle surgeries, outlasted
Richard Gasquet 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-4 to make
his first quarterfinal since July 2009. Topseeded Nadal and second-seeded Andy
Roddick play their second-round matches
today.
• Davydenko into China Open quarterfinals: Nikolay Davydenko cruised into the
quarterfinals of the China Open in Beijing
with a 7-5, 7-5 win over Marin Cilic of Croatia on Wednesday. The fourth-seeded
Russian will face American John Isner,
who beat Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-3. German qualifier
Michael Berrer could not duplicate the
play that helped him beat fifth-seeded Tomas Berdych in the previous round, falling
to Gilles Simon of France 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-6
(4). On the women’s side, Serbia’s Bojana
Jovanovski, who previously knocked out
third-seeded compatriot Jelena Jankovic,
lost to Shahar Peer of Israel 6-1, 6-2.
Second-seeded Vera Zvonereva moved
into the quarterfinals after defeating fellow
Russian Maria Kirilenko 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.
• Venus Williams’ 2010 season over:
Venus Williams is done for the season
because of a left knee injury that has sidelined her for most of the second half of
2010. In a statement released to The Associated Press on Wednesday, the seventime Grand Slam champion said she is
“very disappointed to announce that I will
be unable to play” in the WTA Tour Championships at the end of October, and the
Fed Cup final between the United States
and Italy at San Diego in November. She
is No. 3 in this week’s WTA rankings
and went 38-7 with two titles in singles,
and 18-1 with three titles in doubles this
season, earning more than $2.5 million in
prize money.

Basketball
• Stern wants NBA preseason games
in Brazil: David Stern is promising Brazilian fans they will soon have the chance to
watch NBA players in action in their own
country. The NBA commissioner said during a news conference Wednesday that
preseason games will be held in Brazil
“likely prior to the 2014 World Cup”, when
Brazil will organize the showcase soccer
tournament. “My backup position is prior
to the Olympics,” Stern said of the 2016
Games in Rio de Janeiro. “We are well
aware of the World Cup and Olympic expectations. And we expect to be following
up on that opportunity relatively shortly.”
Stern was speaking ahead of a preseason
game between the New York Knicks and
the Minnesota Timberwolves in Paris. He
also said the NBA would soon open an office in Brazil.
• GMs pick Lakers to repeat, Durant
to win MVP: The Lakers’ Kobe Bryant
will earn another ring and Oklahoma
City’s Kevin Durant will seize the MVP
award away from LeBron James. Those
are among the opinions of NBA general
managers who voted in the ninth annual
NBA.com GM survey, which was released
Wednesday. Los Angeles was picked by
63 percent of the respondents to repeat
as champions, with 33 percent of the vote
going to James and the new-look Miami
Heat. Durant, the MVP of the U.S. victory
in the world basketball championship,
received 67 percent of the MVP vote.
James, the two-time MVP, was picked by
only 4 percent. Top pick John Wall was
the overwhelming favorite for Rookie of
the Year, claiming 68 percent. The GMs
picked Boston — a unanimous choice in
the Atlantic — Chicago, Miami, the Lakers, Dallas and Oklahoma City as division
champions.
• Wade: Leg is still sore: Dwyane
Wade’s right hamstring remains sore, and
the Miami Heat star guard says he’s undergoing a lengthy round of treatments to
try and get back on the court as soon as
possible. Wade pulled the hamstring 3:17
into the Heat preseason opener against
Detroit on Tuesday night and did not return. He expects to miss up to two weeks,
although no timetable for a return has
been formally announced.

Track and field
• Olympic 100m champ Fraser gets
doping ban: World and Olympic 100meter champion Shelly-Ann Fraser of
Jamaica was suspended for six months
Wednesday after failing a doping test.
Fraser will be ineligible to compete until
Jan. 7, the IAAF announced. She was
provisionally suspended by the track and
field governing body in June after she
tested positive for the drug oxycodone
at the Diamond League meet May 23 in
Shanghai. Fraser had a dental procedure
shortly before flying to China for the meet.
She said she took a painkiller because of
a toothache. Fraser won gold in the 100 at
the 2008 Beijing Olympics, leading a Jamaican sweep. She won the 2009 world
title in Berlin.
— The Associated Press

New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez (13) congratulates Mark Teixeira after Teixeira hit a two-run home run during the seventh inning
against the Minnesota Twins in Game 1 of an American League Division Series on Wednesday in Minneapolis.

Yankees rally to beat Twins
in opener of division series
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Be it the majestic views
of Target Field or that dusty old hornets’ nest
they called the Metrodome, it just doesn’t
seem to matter.
The New York Yankees simply own the
Minnesota Twins in the playoffs.
Mark Teixeira hit a tiebreaking, two-run
homer in the seventh inning and the Yankees
rallied to a 6-4 victory Wednesday night in
Game 1 of the AL division series, the Twins’
10th straight postseason loss.
“Game-winning homers,” Teixeira said
with a wide smile on his face, “there’s nothing better.”
Yankees ace CC Sabathia labored, but reliever David Robertson fanned Jim Thome in
a key spot and Mariano Rivera got the final
four outs to close another win for the defending World Series champions. The Yankees
rallied from a 3-0 deficit against Francisco
Liriano and improved to 10-2 against the
Twins in the playoffs since 2003.
Even a blown call by the umpires — shades
of the last two postseasons — that went
against the Yankees with two outs in the bottom of the ninth didn’t hurt them.
“It’s just bad luck for Minnesota. We just
keep fighting. That’s a great team over there.
We’ve played a lot of tough games against
them,” Teixeira said.
Michael Cuddyer homered, doubled and
drove in two runs for the Twins, who played
their first outdoor postseason game in Minnesota since 1970. They were hoping a move
from the shabby Dome outdoors to gorgeous Target Field would turn their fortunes
around, but it was more of the same against
the mighty Yankees.
“We’ve got to get back up on our feet,” second baseman Orlando Hudson said. “There’s
no need for us to sit here and talk about it. This
isn’t the Twins’ curse versus the Yankees. It’s
a new year. Hey, we’ve still got to battle.”
Game 2 is tonight. Carl Pavano will pitch
for the Twins against Andy Pettitte.
Jorge Posada had two hits and an RBI and
Curtis Granderson added a two-run triple for
New York, which has never won a postseason
series as a wild card.

Lincecum leads Giants
into opener vs. Braves
SAN FRANCISCO — Tim Lincecum emerged
as the most dominant pitcher in the National
League in his first two full major league
seasons. Back-to-back NL Cy Young Awards.
Two All-Star selections, 526 strikeouts. All
by the age of 25.
Now, the 16-game winner for the San
Francisco Giants gets to take the ball for
his most important start yet: Game 1 of the
division series against the wild-card Atlanta
Braves tonight at AT&T Park.
Postseason veteran Derek Lowe (16-12) will
go for the Braves, who reached the playoffs
with a dramatic 8-7 win over the Philadelphia
Phillies on the season’s final day to extend
manager Bobby Cox’s farewell season.
It took big performances by Lincecum’s
supporting cast to get the Giants back to the
playoffs after a six-year absence. They won
the NL West despite enduring a career-worst
five-start losing streak by their ace in August.
Lincecum came through over the final month
and hopes to carry that momentum into his
playoff debut.
San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy knows
Cox will be prepared for anything and
everything. The 69-year-old Cox is retiring
after the season. He led Atlanta to 14 straight
division titles but the Braves are back in the
playoffs this season for the first time in five
years.
“I revere this guy so much with what he’s
done and what he’s accomplished,” Bochy
said. “It’s going to be good to see him, I will
say that. I do know that you have to play your
best ball to beat this team. You’re not going to
surprise Bobby. He’s a great manager.”
— The Associated Press
Rivera recorded his 40th career postseason saves in 45 chances, but had to work a little harder than he planned. Replays showed
Yankees right fielder Greg Golson — inserted
that inning for defensive purposes — caught

Halladay
Continued from D1
His 320 starts were the most of any
active pitcher who had never appeared
in the postseason.
“It’s hard to explain, but pitching
a game like that, being able to win
the game comes first,” Halladay said.
“That’s kind of your only focus until after it’s over with. I think once it ends, it’s
a little bit surreal.”
As Halladay walked across the outfield to the bullpen before Wednesday’s
game, his pitching coach, Rich Dubee,
gave him a simple instruction.
“Go out there and try to be good,”
Dubee said he told Halladay. “If you go
out there and try to be good, you’ve got a
chance to be great.”
Halladay, whose perfect game came
on the road against the Florida Marlins on May 29, made the most of that
chance. He is the fifth pitcher in major
league history to throw two no-hitters in
the same season, joining Johnny Vander
Meer of the 1938 Cincinnati Reds, Allie Reynolds of the 1951 Yankees, Virgil Trucks of the 1952 Detroit Tigers
and Nolan Ryan of the 1973 California
Angels.
It also continued a trend in the majors this season. Halladay’s gem was the
sixth no-hitter since opening day, one
shy of the single-season major league
record. Another potential no-hitter — a

Matt Rourke / The Associated Press

The scoreboard shows Roy Halladay’s no-hitter after the Philadelphia Phillies
defeated the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 on Wednesday.
perfect game, in fact, by Detroit’s Armando Galarraga — was ruined by an
umpire’s blown call with two out in the
ninth inning.
Halladay, 33, went 21-10 this season,
leading the league in innings and complete games, and he is expected to win
his second Cy Young Award. He has
been everything the Phillies could have

hoped for when they traded three prospects to Toronto to get him, then signed
him to a contract extension that could
be worth $80 million over four years.
It was something of a gamble for the
Phillies, who simultaneously traded
their best 2009 starter, Cliff Lee, to Seattle. Lee had beaten the Yankees twice
last fall for the Phillies’ only World Se-

Delmon Young’s sinking liner for what
should’ve been the last out.
But umpire Chris Guccione ruled that he
trapped it and the call stood after the umpires
huddled. Manager Joe Girardi came out to argue, but to no avail.
“They got together and talked about it. It’s
not that they were out of position. It happens,”
Girardi said.
In fact, the Yankees benefited against the
Twins in the playoffs last year when a ball
hit by Joe Mauer that clearly landed fair was
called foul.
This time, the missed call brought Thome
to the plate as the potential tying run. Rivera
retired the slugger on a popup to third baseman Alex Rodriguez to end the game.
In other division series on Wednesday:
Rangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Rays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Picking up
where he left off during in a dazzling October
run a year ago, Cliff Lee shut down Tampa
Bay while outpitching David Price and leading Texas to a victory in the opening game of
the AL playoffs. Lee matched a postseason
best with 10 strikeouts while allowing five hits
— one after the second inning. During one
dominating stretch, he retired 16 of 17 batters
before giving up Ben Zobrist’s homer in the
seventh. The Rangers, in the playoffs for the
first time in 11 years, stopped a nine-game
postseason losing streak that began in 1996.
Nelson Cruz and Bengie Molina homered for
the AL West champions. Darren O’Day and
Darren Oliver pitched the eighth, and rookie
Neftali Feliz worked out of a ninth-inning jam
by striking out the final two batters. Price, a
19-game winner, allowed five runs and nine
hits in 6 2⁄3 innings. He struck eight and, like
Lee, walked none.
Phillies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Reds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
PHILADELPHIA — Roy Halladay threw
the second no-hitter in postseason history,
leading Philadelphia over Cincinnati in Game
1 of the NL division series Halladay even did
it at the plate. He ignited a three-run, two-out
rally in the second inning with an RBI single.
See story, Page D1.

ries victories, but he was not signed to a
long-term contract.
Lee has remained an ace — now with
Texas, he beat Tampa Bay in his playoff start Wednesday — but Halladay
lent a sense of desperation to the Phillies’ two-time reigning National League
champions. If there was ever a danger of
their growing complacent, his presence
erased it.
“He has a lot of hunger,” Phillies Manager Charlie Manuel said Tuesday. “I
think he’s starving all right. He’s intense
and he wants it.”
Halladay ran alone on the warning
track in a downpour before the Phillies’
workout on Tuesday, then played catch
in the outfield with his fellow starter
Cole Hamels. His work ethic and mental
sharpness are revered around baseball,
as is his wide repertory of weapons.
“He’s got probably four of the best
pitches in baseball,” another Phillies
starter, Roy Oswalt, said on Wednesday
afternoon. “All four of his pitches he can
throw at any time. When you can do that
in the big leagues, you’re going to create
a lot of havoc for the opposing hitter.”
Even, as Halladay showed Wednesday, when facing the team that led the
National League in batting average,
runs, hits and homers. The Reds battered him for 13 hits on June 30, but
there were signs that Halladay could
dominate them. He struck out 10 Reds
that day without a walk and tossed nine
shutout innings against them at home

two starts later.
“Any time you’re facing a good team,
I think the more aggressive you can
be early in the count — get yourself in
pitcher’s counts — the more the numbers play into your favor,” said Halladay,
who threw first-pitch strikes to 25 of
his 28 hitters. “So that was definitely a
priority.”
The Reds remain hitless in the postseason since Eddie Taubensee’s eighthinning single in Game 4 of the 1995
National League Championship Series,
when they were swept by the Atlanta
Braves. It was a dispiriting way to return to the playoffs.
“You’ve got to put that one behind
us, figure we got beat by a great performance tonight,” Reds Manager Dusty
Baker said. “The thing about it is, I don’t
think he threw anything down the heart
of the plate. Everything was on the corners and moving.”
The Reds’ hardest hit might have been
a lineout to right by pitcher Travis Wood
in the third inning. The final out came
on a dribbler in front of the plate by
Brandon Phillips, who raced to first as
the ball nicked his bat in the dirt. Catcher Carlos Ruiz dropped to his knees to
field it, threading a throw over Phillips’
left shoulder.
The out secured, Ruiz embraced
a beaming Halladay as teammates
mobbed them. The Phillies and Halladay hope it was only the first celebration
of an already magical postseason.

THE BULLETIN â&#x20AC;˘ Thursday, October 7, 2010 D5

Pac-10

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Road doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get easier for OSU
Beavers to face third top-10
team of the season when
they travel to No. 9 Arizona
By Anne M. Peterson
The Associated Press

The Oregon State Beavers have faith their tough
schedule will build a tougher team.
The Beavers, who it seems can hardly catch a scheduling break, visit No. 9 Arizona on Saturday. The undefeated Wildcats will join now-No. 5 TCU and now-No. 4
Boise State on the list of Oregon Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early opponents.
Rather than shrug at their lot this season, the Beavers
are welcoming it.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all pretty grateful for
the opportunity to play the type of
opposition weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been playing,â&#x20AC;? linebacker Cameron Collins said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all
came to Oregon State to play the best
and Coach (Mike) Rileyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s given us
that opportunity.â&#x20AC;?
Next up
Oregon State lost to the Horned
â&#x20AC;˘ Oregon State Frogs and the Broncos but beat Louat Arizona
isville earlier this season and is coming off a 31-28 victory over Arizona
â&#x20AC;˘ When:
State. Both of those wins came at ReSaturday,
ser Stadium.
4 p.m.
The Beaversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nonconference schedâ&#x20AC;˘ TV: VS.
ule was considered one of the most
network
difficult in the nation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; indeed the
most recent Sagarin computer ratings
give Oregon State the hardest overall schedule among
Football Bowl Subdivision teams.
Complicating matters is the fact that the Beavers play
four of their first six games on the road (however they
play four of their final six at home). Oregon State doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
return to Reser until Oct. 30 for homecoming against
California.
The argument can be made that Oregon Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schedule may have cost the team a couple of early wins, but
could pay dividends as far as the conference standings
at the end of the year.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it helps from a standpoint that we are not going to be scared of a moment, we are not going to shy
away from a moment,â&#x20AC;? cornerback James Dockery said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is just another opportunity to know what we need to
do, to get the job done.â&#x20AC;?
Arizona (4-0, 1-0 Pac-10) opened the season with routs
over Toledo and the Citadel, followed by an impressive
win over then-No. 9 Iowa and a gritty victory over California. Last weekend the Wildcats had a bye.

Don Ryan / The Associated Press

Oregon State running back Jacquizz Rodgers breaks through a pack of Arizona State defenders for a 74yard touchdown run during the second half of Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game in Corvallis. The Beavers, who won that
game 31-28, take on Arizona this weekend.
The most glaring problem that Arizona presents for
the Beavers is their defense, ranked second in the nation behind Boise State. The Wildcats are only allowing
opponents an average of 230 yards total offense, 101 on
the ground and 129 in the air. They surrendered just 29
rushing yards to Iowa.
That will be a challenge for Oregon Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s steadily
improving offense. Against Arizona State, Beavers
quarterback Ryan Katz played his best game, completing 19 of 29 passes for 260 yards and two touchdowns.
And he did it without go-to receiver James Rodgers, who
sat out after sustaining a concussion the week before at
Boise State.
Katz, making his fourth career start, connected
with nine different receivers, including sophomores

Markus Wheaton and Jordan Bishop, who each had four
catches.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just getting more comfortable,â&#x20AC;? Katz
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the receivers are seeing the open lanes and
the lineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s giving me time to throw the ball. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve corrected a lot of things since the TCU game. I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just
scratching the surface.â&#x20AC;?
Rodgers, who was practicing at full speed Tuesday,
will return against the Wildcats.
While the Beavers have won four straight in Tucson,
Arizona beat them 37-32 in Corvallis last season. It was
quarterback Nick Folesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first start and he made the most
of it, passing for 254 yards and three touchdowns. This
season, Foles has thrown for 1,089 yards with six TDs
and a conference-best 74.5 completion percentage.

Moos to get look at Oregon program he helped build
Former UO athletic director is now with Washington
State as the lowly Cougars prepare for the No. 3 Ducks
egon from 1995-2007, where
the rising fortunes of the footSPOKANE, Wash. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bill
ball program brought dramatic
Moos helped build the Ducks
increases in sports revenues.
into a football power during his
Moos and Knight have never
12 years as athletic director for
talked publicly about their split,
Oregon.
but many found it telling that
Next up
Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll view his handiwork
Knight gave a $100 million doâ&#x20AC;˘ Oregon at
from the other side for the first
nation to Oregonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s athletic deWashington
time this Saturday, when No. 3
partment right after Moos left.
State
Oregon (5-0, 2-0 Pac-10) travels
Moos claims to have no hard
to Pullman to play Washington â&#x20AC;˘ When:
feelings, calling the Ducks the
State (1-4, 0-2), where Moos has
best team in the country right
Saturday,
been the athletic director since
now. They are five touchdown
2 p.m.
February.
favorites this Saturday.
There wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be any divided â&#x20AC;˘ TV: Comcast
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We spent 12 very good years
SportsNet
loyalties for Moos, whose deat Oregon and feel very proud
Northwest
parture from Oregon was the
of our part in building that proresult of an unspecified falling
gram,â&#x20AC;? Moos said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I continue
(tape-delay
out with Nike co-founder Phil
at 6:30 p.m.) to be impressed with how they
Knight, a major booster.
have continued to grow it.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a Cougar and I work
Under a noncompete clause
for the Cougars, so people know where with Oregon that paid him nearly
my heart is,â&#x20AC;? said Moos, a star player for $200,000 a year, Moos spent three years
Washington State in the early 1970s. In- developing a ranch south of Spokane,
deed, the answering machine message and caught up on issues at his alma
on his cell phone begins with an extend- mater.
ed rendition of the WSU fight song.
When athletic director Jim Sterk deMoos, 59, was athletic director at Or- cided in February to leave for San Diego

By Nicholas K. Geranios
The Associated Press

State, WSU boosters demanded that the
administration hire Moos as the replacement. Moos negotiated a deal with Oregon regarding the noncompete and then
went to work.
What WSU boosters were looking for
is the same kind of magic Moos worked
in Eugene, where the athletic department
budget grew from $18 million in his first
year to more than $40 million by 2007.
The donor base increased from 4,900 to
12,290. Moos oversaw the expansion of
facilities, and the Ducks enjoyed their
longest stretches of success in football
and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball.
Moos believes a similar renaissance
can occur at Washington State, where
the $30 million athletic budget is the
smallest in the Pac-10 and football attendance has dropped after two dreadful
seasons.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want our fans to realize this can be
done at WSU,â&#x20AC;? Moos said.
Much depends on the fortunes of the
football team, which was 3-22 in coach
Paul Wulffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first two seasons and continues to struggle this year.
Moos remains confident that Wulff
can turn the program around.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paul and his assistants are doing a
great job of recruiting,â&#x20AC;? Moos said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m
seeing signs of improvement.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We changed the culture and mindset
at Oregon, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done overnight,â&#x20AC;?

River
Continued from D1
At the end of the next drift, the tip of the 8-foot6-inch Lamiglas shuddered and I set the hook. This
fish stayed close to the bottom and when I managed
to gain a little line, a trail of bubbles broke to the surface. A sturgeon. A minute later, the 40-inch dinosaur
was alongside to be admired and released.
Around us, the fish continued to jump, but Leonard, owner of Steveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guided Adventures in Washougal, Wash., was antsy. He pointed the bow toward
the dock and we pulled the boat out and made the
run east up Interstate 84 to the next boat launch.
We joined a flotilla of 33 other boats over a deep
flat off the mouth of the Klickitat and dropped our
baits. Thom Doulder drifted a gob of roe into the
yawning maw of a 10-pound male.
Around us, rods flexed, salmon churned the surface to froth and nets plunged to draw thrashing chinook from the depths of the big river.
As soon as Doulderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fish was in the box, I rebaited
and Leonard leaned over and sprayed his magic juice
on the fresh gob of eggs. Over the side it went. With a
bounce, it touched down. Thirty seconds later, it was
my turn to pin a salmon, this one a 12-pound male.
When the sun was well up in the sky, we switched
rods and put down K14 Kwikfish in chrome and
chartreuse, wrapped with chunks of herring or tuna.
At the bottom of the run, we would let the weight
down to touch bottom, then troll back upstream.
Up in the front of the boat taking pictures, I
missed it when a salmon smashed my Kwikfish.
Greg Gulbrandsen battled the fish for a minute, but
it threw the hooks. A few minutes later, Gregâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rod

Moos said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our design there is similar
to what we are doing here.â&#x20AC;?
That includes trying to make lots more
money from football. Moos believes the
football program should generate twothirds to three-quarters of an athletic
departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget. At WSU, football
generates about one-third, $10 million,
because of low attendance and lower
television income than other Pac-10
teams, Moos said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to increase our revenue
streams and have money in the bank,â&#x20AC;?
Moos said.
A major step in that direction could
come at this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meetings of Pac-10
athletic directors. The meetings are part
of the effort to hammer out new revenue
sharing agreements as the league adds
Colorado and Utah in 2011. In the Pac10, participants in a televised game split
64 percent of the money, with the other
eight teams getting just 4.5 percent each.
Moos favors sharing the TV revenue
equally, as many other conferences do,
which could be worth $10 million to $15
million a year for the Cougars.
Moos noted that Washington State has
gone to the Rose Bowl twice since 1997,
but failed to keep the momentum going.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to work to get back there
and then have a plan in place to sustain
it,â&#x20AC;? Moos said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The latter is tougher than
the former.â&#x20AC;?

Continued from D1
The late-night game has been an
issue for the Pac-10 for years.
The benefit of playing after dark
is the lack of competition for TV
viewers; Saturdays are full of clutter and there arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as many options for people to switch off to at
night in the West.
The downside is that some viewers on the East Coast might not
be willing to stay up into the wee
hours to watch a college football
game. That hurts the TV ratings
and the Pac-10â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recognition in the
East, which could be damaging in
poll and award voting.
So as the conference heads into
a new era, transforming into the
Pac-12 with the addition of Colorado and Utah, its leaders are
looking into ways of getting its
marquee games in front of bigger
audiences.
The Pac-10â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s TV deals expire at
the end of the current school year
and the starting times for football
games are sure to be part of the
conversation.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of factors that go
into making sure weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re visible nationally for our biggest games, but
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a high priority, something that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re spending
a lot of time on and something that
will receive a very high priority as
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at our future broadcast agreements,â&#x20AC;? Scott said.
The Pac-10 has already had its
share of big games on the latenight slate this season.
On Sept 18, a matchup between
No. 9 Iowa and No. 24 Arizona, one
of the biggest games in the Wildcatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recent history, started at 7:30
local time. UCLAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upset win over
No. 23 Houston started at the same
time and the Wake Forest-Stanford
game was even later, kicking off at
8:15.
Arizona, looking to cement its
status among the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elite
programs, played another late
game against Cal the next week,
the same time as an entertaining
shootout between Oregon and Arizona State.
Stanford-Oregon was on the latenight list, too, until ABC and ESPN
asked if it could be moved up.
For the Pac-10, it was a no-brainer. Its long-standing dilemma has
been fighting eastern perception
that the conference is USC and
a bunch of teams nobody cares
about.
This game was a rare chance to
show thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no longer the case.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Pac-10 is arguably among
the top two conferences in terms of
our stature and the performance of
our teams and I want to make sure
voters across the country are seeing the best of the Pac-10,â&#x20AC;? Scott
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the reasons we
allowed Stanford and Oregon to be
moved earlier.â&#x20AC;?
Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to see if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feasible to have more big games played
earlier.
It might be tough at the two Arizona schools, at least for the first
two months of the season. Temperatures reach into the 90s even
for night games in September and
October; the temperature at kickoff at Oregon-Arizona State was a
blistering 100.
Other schools have more flexibility and appear willing to shift
things around if it means more
recognition for their programs and
the conference.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a conference that I think
has traditionally been seen as
pretty conservative and rigid when
it comes to when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll play, but I
think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changing,â&#x20AC;? Scott said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not only is there new leadership in
the conference office, but throughout the conference and a different
mindset is evolving. I think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll
see a fresh look at where we play.â&#x20AC;?

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FISHING
Gary Lewis / For The Bulletin

A herring-wrapped Kwikfish and the weight it takes
to run the wobbling lure in 40 to 50 feet of water.
plunged and he put the steel to a 10-pound king.
At camp, we showed off six bright salmon from
the big river then sealed the steaks with a VacUpack
sealer while peach cobbler baked to a golden brown
in a row of Camp Chef Dutch ovens.
Every September, we gather at Peach Beach on
the north bank of the Columbia to fish, to eat and to
celebrate the fall salmon run. Smallmouth bass, sturgeon, salmon and steelhead are all in the river and
on the menu.
The variety takes the competition out of camp.
Every day someone gets skunked, and someone else
lights it up. As hunting seasons get under way, some
of the best fishing of the year takes place in October
on the Columbia.
Gary Lewis is the host of â&#x20AC;&#x153;High Desert Outdoorsmanâ&#x20AC;?
and author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;John Nosler â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Going Ballistic,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black
Bear Hunting,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hunting Oregonâ&#x20AC;? and other titles.
Contact Lewis at www.GaryLewisOutdoors.com.

BEND CASTING CLUB: The Bend
Casting Club is a group of local
fly anglers from around Central
Oregon who are trying to improve
their casting technique; club meets
on the fourth Wednesday of each
month, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the
Orvis Casting Course in Bendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Old Mill District; 541-306-4509 or
bendcastingclub@gmail.com.
THE SUNRIVER ANGLERS CLUB: Meets
on the third Thursday of each month
at 7 p.m. at the Sunriver Fire Station.
Contact: www.sunriveranglers.org.
THE CENTRAL OREGON FLYFISHERS
CLUB: Meets on the third Wednesday
of each month at 7 p.m. at the Bend
Senior Center, 1600 SE Reed Market
Road. Contact: www.coflyfishers.org.

HUNTING
THE BEND CHAPTER OF THE OREGON
HUNTERS ASSOCIATION: Meets the
second Wednesday of each month at

7 p.m. at the King Buffet at the north
end of the Wagner Mall, across from
Robberson Ford in Bend. Contact:
Bendchapter_oha@yahoo.com.
THE OCHOCO CHAPTER OF THE
OREGON HUNTERS ASSOCIATION:
Meets the first Tuesday of each month
at 7 p.m. at the Prineville Fire Hall, 405
N. Belknap St. Contact: 447-5029.
THE REDMOND CHAPTER OF THE
OREGON HUNTERS ASSOCIATION:
Meets the third Tuesday of each month
at 7 p.m. at the Redmond VFW Hall.

SHOOTING
BEND TRAP CLUB: Trap shooting
Thursdays and Sundays from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m.; five-stand and skeet open
Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; located east of
Bend, at Milepost 30 off U.S. Highway
20; contact Marc Rich at 541-3881737 or visit www.bendtrapclub.com.
CENTRAL OREGON SPORTING CLAYS
AND HUNTING PRESERVE: 13-station,
100-target course and 5-Stand
open Monday through Saturday

from 10 a.m. to dusk, and Sunday
from 9 a.m. to dusk; located at 9020
South Highway 97, Redmond; www.
birdandclay.com or 541-383-0001.
REDMOND ROD & GUN CLUB: Skeet
is Tuesdays and Sundays, 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m.; trap is Wednesdays,
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on;
rifle and pistol available Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, Saturdays, and
Sundays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; sight-in
days Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m.; www.rrandgc.com.
PINE MOUNTAIN POSSE: Cowboy
action shooting club that shoots at
the Central Oregon Shooting Sports
Association range on U.S. Highway
20 at Milepost 24; second Sunday
of each month; 541-318-8199 or
www.pinemountainposse.com.
HORSE RIDGE PISTOLEROS: Cowboy
action shooting with pistols, rifles
and shotguns at the Central Oregon
Shooting Sports Association
range on U.S. Highway 20 at
Milepost 24; first and third Sunday
of each month at 10 a.m.; 541-4087027 or www.hrp-sass.com.

D6 Thursday, October 7, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

Strong hatches reported on Ochoco Creek
Here is the weekly fishing report for selected areas in and
around Central Oregon, provided
by fisheries biologists for the Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife:

CENTRAL ZONE
ANTELOPE FLAT RESERVOIR: Angler reports indicate a high growth rate and
excellent catch rates. The reservoir
has been stocked twice with catchable
rainbow trout and will be stocked again
in October.
BIG LAVA LAKE: The resort is reporting
excellent fishing with the cooler temperatures. The fish that are landed
have been in great condition ranging in
size from 11 to 16 inches.
CLEAR LAKE: No recent report, but the lake
was stocked with keepers and brood
rainbow trout and holdovers from the
previous season should still be available. Lake levels may be getting low
due to irrigation withdrawals.
CRANE PRAIRIE RESERVOIR: Anglers are
still catching large fish from two to
seven pounds.
CRESCENT LAKE: The water temperature
is around 60 and the fish are spread
throughout the lake. The water level is
dropping a bit and some anglers are
picking up 8- to 10-pound browns.
CROOKED RIVER BELOW BOWMAN DAM:
Fishing is excellent with flows around
175 cfs. A sample of redband trout and
mountain whitefish are tagged with
a numbered floy tag protruding from
the back. Anglers who catch a trout or
whitefish with a floy tag are encouraged

FISHING REPORT
to release the fish after recording the
tag number, fish length and location
caught. Anglers can send the information to ODFW at (541) 447-5111 ext. 24
or michael.r.harrington@state.or.us.

Aug. 4 due to high blue green algae
levels. Fishing is not prohibited, but the
advisory states that proper precautions
should be taken to avoid water contact.
In addition,

CULTUS LAKE: There have been reports of
nice rainbow trout and lake trout being
harvested from Cultus over the last
several weeks.

HOSMER LAKE: Fishing for Atlantic salmon
has been good early and late in the day.
Fishing on Hosmer is restricted to fly
fishing with barbless hooks.

DESCHUTES RIVER (Mouth to the Northern
Boundary of the Warm Springs Reservation): The Deschutes River is open to
angling for steelhead and trout from the
mouth upstream to Pelton Dam (river
mile 100). Fishing for summer steelhead has been good and water temperatures have cooled. Summer steelhead
are spread out in good numbers from
the Columbia upstream to the Locked
Gate above Maupin. Good numbers
of steelhead have been passing over
Sherars Falls. Expect good fishing
throughout October in these areas. As
November approaches, more steelhead
will show up between the Locked Gate
and Warm Springs.

KINGSLEY RESERVOIR: Kingsley has been
stocked with lots of trout and should
offer good fishing for trout. Anglers
have the opportunity to catch all size
classes of trout including large trophy
trout and steelhead.

DESCHUTES RIVER (Lake Billy Chinook
to Bend): No recent reports but there
should be good fishing for rainbow
and brown trout. Rainbow trout average 10 to 16-inches, while brown trout
up to 26-inches are available. Anglers
will find better access downstream of
Lower Bridge.

LAKE BILLY CHINOOK: Anglers are continuing to catch kokanee in the Metolius
arm.
LAURANCE LAKE: Trout fishing for native
rainbow and cutthroat along with lots
of stocked rainbows should make summer fishing in Laurance good. It’s a
great place to fly fish out of a small boat
or personal watercraft.

Twin is a great lake to take young kids
to as there is a good beach shoreline
and it is protected from the wind. Look
to catch rainbow trout in the 8 inch to
13 inch size range.
OCHOCO CREEK UPSTREAM TO OCHOCO
DAM: A strong hatch has been occurring around 10 a.m. Anglers should
be aware that beginning in 2010 new
fishing regulations went into effect that
permanently restricts fishing to artificial flies and lures only; two trout per
day and 8-inch minimum length.
OCHOCO RESERVOIR: Although there are
no recent reports, anglers are reporting
improved fishing over past years. Opportunities for 12- to 20-inch rainbow
trout should improve with the warmer
weather.
PRINEVILLE RESERVOIR: Anglers continue
to report good fishing and have reported catching larger trout than in recent
years. Anglers should consult the 2010
Sport Fishing Regulations (page 63) for
maximum length requirements and bag
limits for both largemouth and smallmouth bass.

LITTLE LAVA LAKE: Fish will be moving to
shore as temperatures cool; however,
right now fish are still in deeper waters.

PRINEVILLE YOUTH FISHING POND: Anglers should continue to target bass,
but the pond will be stocked heavily
with trout in the next two weeks.

LOST LAKE: No recent report but Lost Lake
has been stocked with rainbow and
there are a few resident brown trout.
Lost is a great place to troll around in a
small boat or fish from the bank.

TAYLOR LAKE: Taylor Lake should offer
anglers a good opportunity to catch
bass and bluegill. It’s also a great place
to catch carp on the fly rod.

FALL RIVER: Trout fishing has been good
with several different hatches of insects
throughout the day.

METOLIUS RIVER: Trout fishing has been
good. Lots of insect hatches should
offer lots of opportunities for good dry
fly fishing.

HAYSTACK RESERVOIR: A health advisory
was issued for Haystack Reservoir on

NORTH TWIN: No recent reports. North

FLY-TYING CORNER

WICKIUP RESERVOIR: The water is very
low and the only places to launch a boat
are off the sandy beaches. Four-wheel
drive is a must to pull your boat back
out. Rainbow trout and brown trout will
be following spawning kokanee to feed
on eggs.

Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

Morrish’s Mouse 4-6, courtesy Ken Morrish and
Idylwilde Flies.

By Gary Lewis
For The Bulletin

Want to catch big bass on the surface? Want a fly to take
to New Zealand or Alaska or Russia, where the trout key on
rodents? Here is one of the most cast-able mouse patterns I
have seen in a long time.
Picture a mouse that fell into the water. Make your fly
swim, its tail wiggling, its legs in constant motion. Not the
best of swimmers, it goes this way and that. And it is vulnerable. Sometimes bass see the mouse in the air and track
it. Once, I had a bass streak from 10 feet away to be there
when the mouse hit the water. Fish on!
Tie this pattern with 3/0 black thread on a No. 4 TMC
5263 hook. For the tail, tie in a narrow brown rabbit strip
with a tuft of hair left at the tip. For the back, tie in a tapered
strip of 6mm black foam. Build the body with spun cow elk
hair. Trim bottom and top as shown. Pull the foam over and
tie down at the eye. Trim foam to leave a head over the eye
of the hook.

HUNTING REPORT

Deer hunters enjoyed above-average success for opener
Here is the weekly hunting
report for selected areas in and
around Central Oregon, provided by wildlife biologists for the
Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife:

PRINEVILLE/OCHOCO
WILDLIFE DISTRICT
DEER OPENER: Opening weekend
buck hunters enjoyed average to
above-average success though
conditions were hot and dry. Most
of the animals taken were yearling
bucks, but several nice older bucks
were taken in the Maury and Ochoco
units. The predicted cooler weather

should provide improved hunting
conditions, and the bucks taken
have been in excellent shape. Overall
harvest success for the weekend
was 8 percent, an improvement over
the 5 percent observed last year.
Hunters are reminded the Rager and
South Boundary Travel Management
Areas (TMA’s) will be in effect in the
Ochoco unit.
GENERAL: Weather conditions have
been variable, with wide temperature
extremes, and cold temperatures
at higher elevations. The Ochoco
National Forest and Prineville BLM
should be contacted regarding the
latest information on motorized access, camping, and fire concerns.
(BLM 541-416-6700, Ochoco Nat.
For. 541-416-6500). Two cooperative
travel management areas (Rager and

South Boundary) are in effect in the
Ochoco unit. Maps are available at
entry portal signs and at ODFW and
Ochoco National Forest offices in
Prineville.
EARLY ANTLERLESS ELK: Hunts are ongoing in the Maury, Ochoco and Grizzly units. These hunts include private
agricultural and range lands where
permission from the landowner is
needed. Typically elk move into these
hunt areas in greater numbers during
the late summer to take advantage of
the irrigated pastures and hay fields.
COUGAR: Are present at all elevations
in the Maury, Ochoco and Grizzly
units. Like coyotes, cougar will be
attracted to deer and antelope, but
also elk. The Maury and Ochoco units
are recommended because of their

greater amounts of public lands and
better accessibility. Remember cougars must be checked in at an ODFW
office within 10 days after harvest.
Please consult the synopsis for all required parts and be sure to call first
to make an appointment.
BEAR: Best hunting opportunities will be
on forest lands at higher elevations
on the Ochoco National Forest. The
better locations will be on the more
densely forested north slopes of
the Lookout Mountain and Paulina
Ranger Districts in the Ochoco Unit.
Remember check in of harvested
bears is mandatory. Please check
the synopsis for more information
and call ahead of time to make an appointment.
UPLAND GAME BIRD SEASONS: Includ-

ing valley and mountain quail, and
chukar will open Saturday, Oct. 9.
A cold wet spring resulted in poor
early hatches for these species,
but the late hatches appear strong.
Hunters should check the synopsis
for mountain quail, as only selected
counties (including Crook) are open

for hunting.
FOREST GROUSE: Opportunities are
limited to higher elevation forest
lands on the Ochoco National Forest.
Hunters should check the more heavily forested portions of the Lookout
Mountain and Paulina Ranger districts for these elusive birds.

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Pack extra layers as
temperatures drop
“We’ve got fine fall trail
conditions,” said Chris Sabo,
trails specialist for the Deschutes National Forest early
this week. Some trails may
be a little dusty, he added, but
snow isn’t yet an issue.
However, he said Central Oregon hikers and bikers should
be aware of cooler fall weather
and earlier sunsets. He suggested trail users pack extra
layers and their 10 essentials.
The seasonal leash restriction along the Deschutes
River between the area near
the Seventh Mountain Resort and Benham Falls is now
off, though Sabo said those
whose dogs aren’t under voice
control should still consider
leashing their pets.
Another consideration for
trail users: Rifle hunting season has begun.
“Just so trail users are aware,
they are going to see hunters,”
he said. “Maybe wear brighter
clothing, or if they see or hear
one, whistle or give a hoot so
you don’t surprise them.”
In the coming weeks, some
logging projects may limit access near the Skyliner Trail,
but signs will be posted at the
Phil’s and Skyliner trailheads.

SPOTLIGHT
Free communication
workshop tonight
Robert Killen will lead an
interactive workshop on civil
dialogue from 5:30 to 7 tonight at the Bend Public Library, 601 N.W. Wall St.
The workshop, “Building
Dialog in an Age of Demons,”
explores ways to communicate
civilly, without demonizing
others. Killen, the executive director of the City Club of Central Oregon, will talk about
gaining freedom from communication processes that consider collaboration a weakness.
There is no cost to attend
the workshop. Contact: 541617-7080 or www.dpls.us.

Writers Guild to host
Literary Harvest
The Central Oregon Writers Guild will host its seventh
Annual Literary Harvest
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 15
at Central Oregon Community College’s Hitchcock Auditorium, 2600 N.W. College
Way, in Bend.
Winners of the Literary
Harvest Writing Contest will
present their entries. Editor
and author Elizabeth Lyon
will be the keynote speaker.
Tickets are $10 at the door,
which opens at 6:15 p.m.
Contact: 541-408-6306 or
www.centraloregonwritersguild.com.

A FALL
FROLIC
Take a serene hike past waterfall,
Oregon’s largest ponderosa pine
on La Pine State Park trail system
By Eleanor Pierce
The Bulletin

O

n a recent visit to
La Pine State Park,
I discovered it’s not
just a great launch
point for a long, lazy
river float on a hot day. It’s also a
good place to find some solitude
and enjoy an easy walk among
some trees, rivers and critters.
The park is also home to the
largest ponderosa pine in the
state. The 500-year-old Big Tree
(some call it Big Red), stands 162
feet tall and nearly 30 feet around,
according to the park’s website.
While Big Tree is a nice stop
on your way into the park, I was
drawn to the La Pine State Park
trail system. So after stopping off
at Big Tree for a couple of photos,
I drove farther down the road and
followed the signs to the McGregor
Memorial Viewpoint, which looks
down on a bend in the Deschutes
River from cliffs that tower about
30 feet above the water.
From the viewpoint, there are
several trail options, including
the 1.5-mile McGregor Loop, the
3.5-mile Deschutes Loop and the
4.75-mile Fall River Loop.
After soaking in the view, I
headed off northward on the
Fall River trail. The weather was
perfect for a fall hike, just chilly
enough.
Soon after I left the trailhead,
the solitude set in. Among the
ponderosas, lodgepole pines and
scant shrubbery, my dog (kept
on leash, per park rules) and I
were the only ones around.
For most of the well-signed
walk, the scenery is the kind
that’s good for quiet introspection more than anything else.
On the trail,
I would occasionally come

Even those who can’t identify
mushrooms can enjoy studying
their features, like the leopardprint caps on these fungi.
to an open area with another
view of the Deschutes winding
below. At one such outcropping
I explored an abandoned cabin
I’d seen before while floating the
river below.
It was eerily ramshackle, with
mattress springs, leaves and
debris littering the floor. The
roof appeared ready to fall in; in
fact, it probably would have if it
weren’t for the fireplace holding
up one wall.
After a couple of miles of quiet,
I saw a sign reading “Fly Fishing
Only,” then I got my first view of
the glassy Fall River, a mecca for
fishermen.
A short way down the trail, I
came to a trail intersection and
nearly passed by, following the
sign to continue on the Fall River
Loop. But I glanced
back at the sign
and noticed an

If you go

The Big Tree
stands 162
feet tall and
nearly 30
feet around.
According to
the La Pine
State Park
website, the
tree may be
more than
500 years
old.

What: La Pine State Park and
Fall River Loop
Getting there: From Bend, take
U.S. Highway 97 south toward
La Pine. After milepost 160, turn
right at the sign to La Pine State
Park. The park is about 5.5 miles
down the road. Follow signs to
the right for Big Tree, or stay
straight toward the campground,
cross the river and turn right
at the signs for the McGregor
Memorial Viewpoint.
Cost: Free, no passes required
Contact: 541-536-2071
arrow pointing a different direction, with the sign “Falls.” I’m
glad I caught the sign, or I would
have missed the side trip to the
Fall River Falls.
About a quarter-mile away
from the main loop, the falls are
about 10 feet high and flow into a
languid pool that begs to be visited again come summer.
Hooking back up with the
main trail, I continued on
the second half of the loop,
stopping here and there
to watch squirrels rushing
about to get ready for winter or to
inspect some of the leopard-print
mushrooms that had popped up in
discarded leaves along the trail.
I enjoyed the solitude on the
walk so much that on the way
back to my car, I didn’t notice a
deer in the trail until I was close
enough to startle it, at which point
it bounded off into the woods.
Later, we moved aside to let a
couple of bikers pass. The flat,
multi-use, single- and doubletrack would make a nice mountain bike ride for families or others looking for an easy ride.
I suppose then I should amend
my description of the solitude: It
was just my dog and I, some very
active squirrels, one startled deer
and two bicyclists.
Eleanor Pierce can be
reached at 541-617-7828 or
epierce@bendbulletin.com.

Teens wanted for
Bend fire program
The Bend Fire Department
is seeking high school students for its SPARC (Students
Preparing A Responsible
Community) Program.
Teens “represent and assist
the Bend Fire Department with
various educational and community events, including National Fire Prevention Week,
Firebusters, Team Teaching
and fire station tours,” according to a news release.
Students must commit to a
minimum of four hours per
month, attend monthly meetings and maintain passing
grades. Students will receive
a high school elective credit.
Applications, due Friday,
are available at the Bend,
Summit or Mountain View
high school-to-career offices
or the Bend Fire Department
Administrative Office.
Contact: 541-322-6309.
— From staff reports

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Pen pal’s story may change
after release from prison
Dear Abby: I am a parole officer,
and while I agree with and support
your response to “Smitten in New
York” (Aug. 6), I would like to offer an additional comment. People
can and do change their lives while
incarcerated. However, when they
are in a controlled environment,
their changed lives on the outside
are still in their imaginations.
Many inmates who make very
positive plans for their future
when they’re released discover life
“on the outs” doesn’t unfold the
way they imagined it would. Some
of them deal with substance abuse
issues, mental illness, brain injuries and a lack of education and
life skills. I would caution “Smitten” not to become too involved
with her pen pal after his release
until he has proven his ability to
be the partner she believes and
hopes he will be.
— Kelly in Washington State
Dear Kelly: Thank you for your
comments. I received many letters
from former pen pals of inmates,
all advising — pleading with —
“Smitten” to run as fast as she can
from this man. Today, however, I’ll
print some from those in the know
from the “inside.” Read on:
Dear Abby: “Smitten” and countless other women (and men) who
write and visit inmates do not fully understand the situation they’re
potentially putting themselves in.
Any one inmate receives numerous letters, graphic photos
and visitors, and not all from the
same “potential special person.”
Inmates live and breathe a 24/7
confined life, with nothing to do
but find ways to entertain or protect themselves. It’s not far-fetched
that an inmate may be under the
control of a gang affiliation and
need to do things to gain a “rep”
inside. They have plenty of time to
consider the who, how, what and
wheres of surviving in jail.
Sure, some inmates have taken
a different road, but is “Smitten”
ready to bring a con into her family in the hopes that he’s telling the
truth? I work in a maximum security prison in New York. “Smitten,”

DEAR ABBY
I strongly urge you to reconsider
communicating with this inmate.
And I hope you’re NOT sending
him money or letting him know
your financial situation.
— Seen from the Inside
Dear Abby: I am a retired corrections officer from the state of
Florida, and this woman has fallen
for the most common game played
by inmates. One person writes the
letter and the others pay him for it
with cigarettes or other items they
can buy in the canteen. Inmates
will come up with amazing fictions to make people feel sorry for
them, or send them money to be
put in their inmate trust fund.
I can guarantee “Smitten” that
this inmate has absolutely no feelings for her and is only using her.
If she’s that gullible — or stupid
— she deserves to be used. If she’s
that lonely, she should get a dog!
— Chris in Florida
Dear Abby: I’m a paralegal who
has worked for a criminal defense
attorney in Florida for many years.
Florida has a comprehensive Web
site and its offender information
search posts not only photos, but
also lists prior incarcerations and
case information about the crime
for which inmates are presently
serving. To find the state prison
site, “Smitten” should input “Florida Department of Corrections”
and look for the “Offender” information search.
“Smitten” is playing with fire,
Abby, and if she gets burned it will
be because she’d rather believe the
fantasy and ignore the reality. She
needs to do her homework before
accepting this man’s declarations
as truth.
— Formerly Burned in Florida
Dear Abby is written by Abigail
Van Buren, also known as Jeanne
Phillips, and was founded by her
mother, Pauline Phillips. Write
Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.
com or P.O. Box 69440, Los
Angeles, CA 90069.

Can Sanchez reinvent himself?
If so, it wouldn’t be
the first time the
former CNN anchor
has resurrected his
career, but some say
his anti-Semitic rant
was the last straw

somewhere else,” Dominick said.
“There are people in television
who think they’re smart because
they’re on television,” Roberts
said. “They think they don’t have
to think. And Sanchez is a victim
of that. He really thought that
what came out of his mouth was
pearls of wisdom, and the stupidity just flowed. ... Is he anti-Semitic? I don’t think so. But he was
very intemperate in his remarks,
and he deserved to be fired.”

By Glenn Garvin

A checkered career

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

MIAMI — He’s been publicly
buried so many times and has
always clawed his way back
out of the graves: an FBI investigation, a drunk-driving conviction, even being whipped
in the ratings by Japanese cartoons. But can Rick Sanchez
survive his meandering rant
about Jewish control of the
media, an ethnic slur that has
already claimed his job?
The question was asked in
broadcast studios and journalism classrooms all over
the country this week after
Sanchez’s weekend firing
from his CNN anchor desk.
“I think his career is over,”
said Sam Roberts, a former
CBS News producer and retired University of Miami
journalism professor. “I think
he’s just radioactive now, and
I don’t think any TV executive is willing to brave it.”
“You’ve seen Rick up, and
you’ve seen Rick down, and he
reinvents himself every time,”
countered Miami radio talkshow host Ninoska Perez. “I
think we’ll see him up again.”

’He deserved
to be fired’
A popular Miami anchor
during the 1980s and ’90s,
when he was one of the first
Cuban-Americans to make it
on TV, the 52-year-old Sanchez
was fired Friday from CNN after six years at the network.

CNN via The Associated Press

CNN fired news anchor Rick
Sanchez last week after he
called Jon Stewart a bigot in a
radio show interview where he
also questioned whether Jews
should be considered a minority.
His dismissal followed a satellite-radio interview in which
Sanchez said he was the victim of
anti-Hispanic prejudice by Jewish
media bosses. Sanchez, frequently the target of derisive punch
lines by Comedy Central host Jon
Stewart, called Stewart “a bigot”
and sneered at the suggestion
that the Jewish Stewart has ever
encountered discrimination.
“I’m telling you that everybody
who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run
all the other networks are a lot
like Stewart, and to imply that
somehow they, the people in this
country who are Jewish, are an
oppressed minority?” Sanchez
said, then added with sarcastic
emphasis: “Yeah.”
His bitter complaints were anything but a momentary blurt —
the raw exchange with Sirius XM
radio host Peter Dominick lasted
more than 20 minutes. Dominick
later told the Hollywood Reporter
he felt badly about the outcome
of the interview but that Sanchez
had entered the studio with “a
live grenade in his mouth.”
“If Rick didn’t do it on my
show, he would have done it

Sanchez was born in Cuba and
grew up in Hialeah, Fla., near Miami. His scorching intensity and
classic Latin good looks made
him an instant sensation when he
debuted on WSVN-TV in 1982.
But when FBI microphones
picked up Sanchez partying with
and accepting financial favors
from Hialeah political fixer Alberto San Pedro during a 1986
investigation of influence peddling, his South Florida broadcasting career seemed finished.
Sanchez went off to Houston,
where he was a ratings flop.
He returned 18 months later,
once again an instant success as
he led a new tabloid-ish WSVN
news format that became known
as “if it bleeds, it leads.” Even a
drunk-driving conviction after
an accident that left a pedestrian
(who was also drunk) paralyzed
didn’t dent his popularity there.
But a shot on the national stage
as an anchor at MSNBC was a
ratings disaster and so was his return to host a WTVJ-TV talk show
that was consistently whipped in
the ratings by cartoons.
Sanchez’s career finally seemed
to have stabilized since he joined
CNN, first as a reporter and then
as an afternoon anchor.
“He’s a very passionate guy,

and that can maybe sometimes
get the best of him,” said Lisa Navarette, spokeswoman for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic lobby. “But he was an important advocate within CNN for
diversity and an important voice
for lowering the heat on coverage
of the immigration issue. ... We
were sad to see him go.”
And, Navarette added, the
anger over Sanchez’s remarks
about Jews is masking the truth
of his complaints about discrimination against Hispanic reporters and anchors in the Englishspeaking television world.
But for Jews, Sanchez’s words
were just more salt in an ancient
anti-Semitic wound.
“This is an old story, and there
are left-wing and right-wing versions of it,” said Todd Gitlin, a
Columbia University professor of
sociology and journalism. “The
intensity and ferocity and dementia of the claim transcend many
normal political differences. ...
No sooner were the modern media born than we started hearing
the accusation that not only do
Jews control the media, but they
do it invidiously, deploying newspapers and other media against
other groups. It’s one of the old
arrows in the quiver of routine
anti-Semitism.”

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Will Arnett, left, and Keri Russell, center, two of the cast members
of Fox’s “Running Wilde,” with co-creator Mitch Hurwitz, second
from right, as they film on the set in Sands Point, N.Y., on Oct. 1.

Fox’s ‘Running Wilde’
races to find audience
By DAVE ITZKOFF
New York Times News Service

SANDS POINT, N.Y. — Lunching in the dining room of a Gatsbyesque country club where his
Fox comedy “Running Wilde” was
filming on a rainy Friday, Will Arnett was making the best of his
opulent settings. He took alternating bites of the chocolate chip pie
and carrot cake on his plate, and
he joked that he had been transported to work that morning by
“a driver who takes me to a helicopter that flies me to Boston, and
then I take a ferry from there.”
But Arnett, 40, a star and cocreator of “Running Wilde,” was
also acutely aware of the illusion
being perpetrated. Beyond the
very real storm that was bogging down production, a figurative cloud loomed over “Running
Wilde” even before it made its
debut two weeks ago.
Before a reporter could fully inquire if he felt uncertain about the
new series, Arnett knew what he
was about to be asked. “To anticipate your question, yes,” he said.
“But you know, it is one of those
things that’s out of your control.”
“Running Wilde” was a series
with some buzz when it was announced by Fox in the spring: It
reunited Arnett, a star of the cult
comedy “Arrested Development,”
with that show’s creator, Mitchell
Hurwitz. And it cast Arnett in
his apparent comfort zone, as a
spoiled oil company scion trying
to romance the eco-conscious
girl of his dreams (played by
Keri Russell of “Felicity”).
But any heat around “Running
Wilde” dissipated over the summer. Early reaction to the pilot was
negative, leading its producers to
recast several supporting roles
and to reshoot several scenes.
The revised pilot that made
its debut on Sept. 21 did not fare
much better. In a review of “Running Wilde” for The New York
Times, Alessandra Stanley described it as a mix of “Arthur”
and “Sabrina” that “strains to
make the tycoon’s son endearingly weak and childish.”
About 5.9 million people
watched that episode, which
faced stiff competition from
shows like ABC’s “Dancing With
the Stars” and CBS’ “NCIS: Los
Angeles.” Viewers of a second
episode of “Running Wilde” declined to about 4.7 million.
Aware that the Fox network will
not hesitate to swing its scythe at
poorly performing newcomers

— it has already canceled “Lone
Star” after two episodes — the
“Running Wilde” team has been
getting by with a little hope and a
lot of self-deprecating humor. Its
cast and crew members seem to
recognize that there is little more
they can do to win over new viewers and that the best they can do
in the time they have is to make
one another laugh.
“As long as we feel like we’re
doing that, we feel fairly confident that what we’re doing is not
terrible,” Arnett said. “Whether
other people like it or not is yet to
be determined.”
At his lunch table, Arnett traded
affectionate barbs with Russell,
his co-star Peter Serafinowicz and
Ana Gasteyer, a “Saturday Night
Live” alumna who was making a
guest appearance on the show.
He also spoke frankly about
how the legacy of “Arrested Development,” a well-liked if not
well-watched Fox series, might
have been too great a burden for
“Running Wilde” to carry.
“It seemed like there was
backlash to our show before it
started,” Arnett said. (“Forelash,”
Serafinowicz added.)
After the cancellation of “Arrested Development” in 2006, Arnett, Hurwitz and James Vallely,
another “Arrested Development”
producer, worked together briefly
on an animated series, “Sit Down,
Shut Up.” When that show fizzled
after a few episodes in 2009, the
three partners returned to the
idea of a live-action comedy —
one with less narrative complexity than the rapid-fire “Arrested
Development,” and with a romantic tension at its core.
But the “Running Wilde” pilot
they devised, Arnett acknowledged, tried too hard for laughs
at the expense of establishing a
believable relationship between
his and Russell’s characters.
“We were too busy trying to
get to what we think is funny,
and what other people might
not,” he said. “We just realized
how many blind spots we had.”
In a telephone interview Hurwitz said he did not expect “Running Wilde” to be as closely measured against “Arrested Development” as it was.
Describing his thought process, he said: “No one will ever
be stupid enough to attempt this
again, and I kind of thought the
joke was going to be on the other
people that tried. I did not think
the joke was going to be on me.”

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010:
This year, you will encounter
new opportunities because of a
willingness to greet differences
and enjoy change. You decide
to jump over certain barriers,
especially if they are self-imposed.
Your creativity surges as you
allow yourself more flex and
mental growth. If you are single,
you certainly can wave goodbye
to your “alone” status, if you so
choose. If you are attached, the
two of you can connect as if you
were old lovers. Once more, you
are the dominant force here.
Work on not being too meoriented. A fellow LIBRA can be
very different from you, but also
motivated by the same issues.
The Stars Show the Kind of Day
You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive;
3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
HHHH Others continue to
make an effort. Some people try
charm; others could be overly
serious. What is clear is that
someone wants a new beginning
in relating. Can you let bygones
be bygones? Tonight: Defer to
another person’s suggestion.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
HHH You might be looking at
reorganizing a key element in your
life. This effort could be as simple
as some fall cleaning. What is
clear is that you want a change
and will create it. Tonight: Be
sensitive to a friend or associate.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
HHHH Whether swapping jokes

or lightening up another’s mood,
you seem to represent lightness
and creativity. Single Gemini
could see a change in their status
in the near future. Attached
Gemini eye their first child. Life
could get exciting! Tonight: Think
“weekend,” even if it is a little early.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
HHH If you can work from home,
by all means, do. Understand what
is happening behind the scenes
with a family member. Make
a decision about a discussion
and help this person start anew.
Tonight: Happy at home.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
HHHH You have been more
serious and less light and easy.
You could see this behavior as
you weigh the pros and cons
of a new major purchase — a
computer, car or whatever you
need. Nevertheless, you will
decide to just do it. Tonight:
Catch up on a pal’s news.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
HHHH You know the pros
and cons of a money decision.
Decide how to approach your
finances, and what works best
for you. You will decide to follow
through and will be able to keep
a resolution. Tonight: Check in
with a respected financial expert.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
HHHHH Once you relax, you
can move forward with a heartfelt
desire. Honor some ambivalence
and have a discussion with a
trusted adviser. You might be
surprised by the direction you
decide to head in. Tonight:
Use the New Moon in your
sign for a new beginning.

Visiting Aspen, off-season
can be just right season
By Andrea Sachs
The Washington Post

A

spen is decompressing,
before it starts all over
again.
During shoulder season, the
siesta between the onslaughts
of summer and winter sports enthusiasts, the Colorado mountain
town reclaims its natural self.
For two months, it slows down,
the crowds thin out and the landscape displays a mashup of green
grasses, golden aspen leaves and
snow-white mountaintops.
“In the off-season, what I treasure is the stillness. It’s not the
hustle and bustle of the high seasons,” said Aspen resident Paul
MacFarlane. “It’s the big exhale.”
Traveling during the off-season — typically mid-September
to pre-Thanksgiving and again
in late spring — opens up experiences that are rare during busier
times. Beaches and mountain
trails regain their personal space.
Hotels and restaurants offer special rates and menus. On-street
parking becomes available.
Stores discount clothes. And locals, now out of the weeds, surface with smiles on their faces.
“Leisure travel has peaks and
valleys,” said Ike Anand, director of airline analytics at Expedia, “and there is a big valley between Sept. 15 and Nov. 15.”
By definition, shoulder season
is the transitional period between
high and low times. For instance,
Bermuda and Nantucket — lovely in summer, less so in winter.
But the term can also refer to the
bridge that connects two popular
seasons: For example, Colorado
draws hikers, rafters and campers in the warm months, and skiers, snowboarders and snowmen
in the wintertime. That leaves the
gap weeks to fringe travelers.
If I wanted some alone time on
the mountain, I had to go now.

Photos by Andrea Sachs / Washington Post

Guests can hike up to a dramatic ridge from the Shrine Mountain Inn near Vail Pass.

the night watching salsa dancing
in the back room of Jimmy’s.
As MacFarlane had said, I had
not just a photo but also a friend.

GETTING THERE
From Denver, the drive to Aspen is
about 31/2 hours.

WHERE TO STAY
Shrine Mountain Inn,
Shrine Mountain Road,
near Vail Pass; 970-925-5775,
www.shrinemountaininn.com
The inn’s three lodges are part
of the 10th Mountain Division
Hut Association, a network of
backcountry accommodations. The
road to the inn is open to cars until
the first big snowfall. Otherwise,
skis or snowshoes are required.
$30 or $43 per person per night,
depending on the property.
Inn at Aspen, 38750 Highway 82,
800-222-7736, www.resortquest
aspen.com
A full-service hotel at the base of
Buttermilk Ski Resort, two miles
from downtown Aspen. From $89.
Hotel Jerome, 330 E. Main St.,
877-412-7625, hoteljerome
.rockresorts.com
Noted for its luxury and colorful
history dating to 1889. Specials
include free upgrade to a suite in
November. From $100.
Glenwood Hot Springs Lodge, 415
E. Sixth St., Glenwood Springs, 800537-7946, www.hotspringspool.com
Comfortable accommodations
across the street from the hot
springs. Breakfast and pool pass
included. Rates from $139; from
$125 Sunday-Thursday in October.

WHERE TO EAT
The Wild Fig, 315 E. Hyman
Ave., Aspen, 970-925-5160,
www.thewildfig.com
Dine off the a la carte Mediterranean
menu, or choose the fixed-price
menu for $33.

Syzygy, 308 E. Hopkins Ave., 970925-3700, www.syzygyrestaurant
.com
Hearty fare such as elk and beef
tenderloin. Find lower prices but
similar items on the bar menu (from
$8), or order the three-course meal
for $39.
For other fall dining specials,
check the EatAspen blog at
www.eataspen.com/blog/?cat=27

WHAT TO DO
Adopt a Tourist, www.aspenpitkin.
com/Departments/CommunityRelations/Adopt-A-Tourist-/
Get matched with an Aspen local for
a personal tour of town. Free.
Maroon Bells Scenic Area, Eight
miles from downtown Aspen in the
White River National Forest, 970945-2521, www.fs.usda.gov
View the most photographed
panorama in the state. In the
off-season, visitors can drive up
to the parking lot and pay the $10
entrance fee; during busy season, a
shuttle transports guests for $6.
Aspen Historical Society,
620 W. Bleeker St., 970-925-3721,
www.aspenhistorysociety.com
Through Oct. 10, the organization
leads tours by foot, bike or
electric car; after Oct. 10, tours by
appointment only. The $25 electric
car tour visits the mining museum
and historical society, among other
sites.
Aspen Animal Shelter, 101 Animal
Shelter Rd., 970-544-0206,
www.dogsaspen.com
Borrow a shelter dog for a hike or
stroll through town. Free.

Huts and a hike
The 10th Mountain Division
Huts offer one of the more communal adventures in Colorado.
For social and survivalist reasons,
you must lose your fears of snoring among strangers and wearing long underwear in public.
The backcountry trail honors
the U.S. Army soldiers who prepared for World War II battle in
the Alps by training in the Rockies. Nearly 30 huts, many resembling youth hostels, spring up
along the Aspen-Vail-Leadville
route, providing hikers and skiers with nests for the night.
The huts book up fast during
high season. Winter is already filling up, with many cabins hanging
“no vacancy” signs, and summer
reservations opened up last week.
But three days before arriving
in Colorado recently, I had little
competition and more options
than I could lay my head on.
To break up the 3 1/2-hour drive
from Denver to Aspen, I grabbed
a room at Shrine Mountain Inn,
near Vail Pass. The lodge stays
open year-round, a rarity among
the Mountain Division shelters.
The 80-acre property comprises three log structures that are
more grand chalet than humble
cabin. During my chosen night,
the upper level of Chuck’s Lodge,
which sleeps six, was available,
as was a bed in Jay’s Cabin,
which contains a sizable kitchen
with a fridge cooled by snow
(when available) and mattresses
for 12. I chose Jay’s and the family of nine that came with it.
I took the top-floor room with
twin beds covered in wool blankets and a connecting bathroom
with a cotton-candy-pink tub
with claw feet.
Near the inn, a 1.7-mile trail
leads through spruce trees and
willows to a ridge ringed by
brawny mountains, some already
donning snowy caps. I pulled out
my orange velour sweat shirt
and swooped it around my head
like a turban, quickly feeling the
blood return to my ears.
I ran into the family atop the
ridge, and the father pointed out
the Mount of the Holy Cross in the
far distance. Closer to the trail, I
studied a rock formation that resembled a mythical ship that had
landed, UFO-style, in the valley.
That Rocky Mountain high was
taking hold.
When I returned to the lodge,
pasta was boiling on the stove
and wine was flowing from boxes. As I accepted a glass of white,
Julie, a nurse who was celebrating her 50th, offered to check
my oxygen level with a finger
monitor. I placed the oximeter on
the tip of my index finger, trying
not to hold my breath for fear of
skewing the results. I earned an
86, which Marty, also a nurse, ex-

If you go

During shoulder season, lodging can be more available in popular destinations such as Aspen, Colo. Pictured is Jay’s Cabin in
Shrine Mountain Inn.
plained signified the percentage
of oxygen in my blood.
“If your doctor in D.C. saw that
number, he’d rush you to the hospital,” he said. “But up here, in the
high altitude, that’s a good result.”
I treated my healthy red blood
cells to a sip of wine.
The group of nine left the next
day. Out of curiosity, I popped
in on caretaker Sherry Mieling,
who lives in a yurt, and asked
about availability for Friday
night. Jay’s Cabin was empty; I’d
have a dozen beds to myself.

Adopted in Aspen
Only two main roads lead into
Aspen, but that number drops
to one with the onset of winter.
Once conditions deteriorate, Independence Pass closes: If you
were to skid, you could soar off
a cliff like Wile E. Coyote, but
without the cartoon ending.
The 44-mile highway wiggles
like an elongated snake, winding
past sparkling lakes with small
islands of aspens and peaks that
crowd the sky. Many hazards
pepper the route, including people creeping around the roadside,
their camera lenses sticking out
like long branches. After many
up-up-ups and down-downdowns, I landed in Aspen, feeling
as if I had fallen from the sky.
Luckily, I had a new friend to
catch me.
Six months ago, the city unveiled its Adopt a Tourist program, which brings together locals and visitors for a play date.
Since its inception, 45 Aspenites
have signed up as chaperons and
150 guests have been adopted.
“My goal is that someone
would feel welcome, comfortable
and embraced from the moment
they get here,” said Paul MacFarlane, who developed the idea.
“You can go home with a photograph, or you can go home with
a photo, e-mails, phone numbers
and friends.”
To help make the best match,

both sides fill out a form that
poses such probing questions as
“How long do you want to be adopted?” and asks about day/night
habits and hobbies.
My local was named Lisa,
and for our outing, the 25-year
resident suggested a bike ride. A
brilliant idea, I told her, though in
hindsight, a sporty activity could
be as risky as ordering spaghetti
on a first date. Potentially messy,
especially if one of us took a spill.
Lisa, a dark-haired bohemian
dressed in a flowy top, dark
skinny pants and slip-on sandals, picked me up outside the
cafe Peaches. We boarded our
bikes and coasted down to the
Rio Grande Trail, which parallels the burbling river. Despite
her girlie bike with basket and
her risky footwear, she jumped
the curbs like a BMXer.
On an early stretch of path,
Lisa explained the cape of exclusivity that wraps itself around
Aspen. She said the community
changed about 10 years ago,
when the billionaires moved to
town, fracturing the community’s fraternal nature. To prove
her point, she told me how the
owners of a mansion we had just
passed had challenged the city to
remove the bike trail. They lost,
and the trail survived.
Over two days, Lisa and I spent
a substantial amount of time
together: She joined me at the
Saturday market and took me
into stores in search of steep discounts. We drove out to the Maroon Bells to savor the flickering
evening light around the muchphotographed peaks, and rode
the gondola up Aspen mountain.
At the summit, she grabbed a
hula hoop from a pile and started
swinging the plastic ring around
her waist as if she were Saturn.
She grabbed a second hoop that
she spun on her arm. That night,
we looked for visiting billionaires
at the St. Regis, then moved on to
Sky Hotel, where we roasted by
the poolside fire pit. We ended

I decided to give back to a community that emphasizes “body,
mind and spirit.” For 18 years,
Seth Sachson has run a program
at the animal shelter that allows
guests to borrow a dog for a day
hike or a trot around town.
“The animals need love, exercise and touch every day, so they
stay adoptable and sane,” he said.
The facility can house up to
30 dogs. The ones woofing up a
storm in Seth’s office were husky
mixes from a nearby dogsledding
operation. Other canines come
through the Wyly family of Dallas, who find homeless dogs in
Hillsboro, Texas, and transport
them north in their private jet.
Over the summer, the program
grew so popular (about 20 walkers a day) that the animals were
getting a lot of — even too much
— exercise. But now in the offseason, the pace has slowed, and
Seth can spend more time pairing
the right human with the right
dog. His process reminded me of
the Adopt a Tourist program, the
only difference being that the local has four legs and howls.
He chose for me a female husky mix who was less than two
years old and already the mother
of four. A wall displays bios of
each dog, with personal descriptions that read faintly like Match
.com profiles. Alex, nee Melana,
was noted for being sweet and
shy, and easy with the kisses.
Seth drove us to the trailhead
of the Rio Grande Trail, setting us
loose at the top of steep stairs that
Alex maneuvered with the grace
of a doe. We crossed over the river and continued on the path that
I had earlier biked with my own

adopter. We stopped at a waterfall so that one of us could quench
her thirst. Traffic was light, with
a few cyclists wheeling by, calling
out “puppy, puppy.” Alex would
glance up, then return to sniffing
out the scents mixed in with the
flowers and dry earth.
After an hour, we retraced our
steps. By the time we reached the
shelter, we were both panting,
having sufficiently worked our
bodies and lifted our spirits.

Soaking it all up
at Glenwood Springs
The hot springs of Glenwood
Springs, less than an hour from
Aspen, are impervious to air temperature and inclement weather.
In rain, snow, sleet or sun, cold
or heat, the outdoor baths are a
reliable 93 degrees in the 100foot pool and 104 degrees in the
405-footer. Bathers, however,
are more programmed to the
seasons. In summer, the facility
attracts 30 percent more visitors
than it does the rest of the year.
“I don’t even come here dur-

ing the summer, because I don’t
want to deal with the kids and
the crowds,” said Rosie Huff, who
once owned a restaurant in town.
After strolling a few laps, I
settled into a spalike chair attached to the inside edge of the
pool. When you pop a quarter
into a machine, jets emit hot bubbles for five minutes. An elegant
older woman named Helen was
clutching a plastic change purse
full of coins. She deposited four
quarters and offered me 50 cents
for my own treatment.
As we sat together in our boiling pots, she told me that she and
her husband divide their time
between Glenwood Springs and
Venice, Fla. She was soon leaving
one shoulder season for another.
A man with steaming glasses
then joined us, confessing that he
had accidentally put his quarters
in Helen’s chair. Bubbled out, Helen proffered her seat to me and
floated off to join her husband.
I moved over to Helen’s spot
but first looked around to be sure
I was not monopolizing. All the
chairs in the row were empty, except mine.

DETROIT — Things are going
well for 35-year-old Dax Shepard, who began his Hollywood ascent in 2003 on Ashton Kutcher’s
MTV hidden-camera TV series
“Punk’d.” The
actor-writer-director appears
weekly on the
small screen
on NBC’s family-centric
dramedy “Parenthood”
as
“I’m just
the fun-loving
interested in
Crosby Braverworking on
man, a young
good, solid
man thrust into
projects with
adulthood by
talented
way of a longpeople. And I
distance relalove working.”
tionship and
— Dax
(surprise!) a 5Shepard, acyear-old son.
tor on NBC’s
Critics are
“Parenthood” also buzzing
about his performance
in
the critically acclaimed film “The
Freebie,” the story of a married
couple who decide to give up that
whole monogamy thing for just
one night. Meanwhile, Shepard’s
mockumentary “Brother’s Justice,” in which he gives up his
comedy and acting life to pursue
a career in martial arts, was just
screened at the second annual
Friars Club Comedy Film Festival in New York City.
The hysterical Shepard, who’s
engaged to actress Kristen Bell,
caught up with the Detroit Free
Press to dish on Coney dogs, his
Midwestern work ethic and more.
At the start of the second
season of “Parenthood,”
Crosby is mostly dealing with
his girlfriend and son. It’s a pretty compelling relationship, one
that many young men can probably relate to — that whole growing-up thing. Any hints you can
provide on where Crosby’s going
this season?
It’s always so annoying
to be in this predicament,
for all parties involved. I can’t
tell you anything! Well, let’s see:
Crosby’s girlfriend, Jasmine (Joy
Bryant), took off to New York
City with our son to take a job
dancing. Yeah, this is the one
thing about TV — I can’t really
tell you anything. You just have
to tell everyone that they’re going to have to watch. Sorry.

Q:

A:

For a lot of new shows with
a large ensemble cast like
yours, it sometimes takes a while
for everyone to click on-screen.
Your show was getting very positive reviews from critics toward
the end of its first season. Does
all of this add more pressure going into the second year?
I would agree with that, especially in television, there
are usually different directors
each episode, and when the show
is new, there’s not a body of work
to look at. And even with the writers, they have to figure out people’s
strong suits, too. That’s tricky. We
have 14 different actors, and they
are all just as unique in real life as
they are in the show. ...
But what’s really cool about
that is the opportunity I get to act
in that type of environment. It’s
really a great job. It’s the most
fun I’ve ever had working, and I
think we all have a really good
time together. So there might be
pressure for us to create this great
show, but I think if we’re having
a lot of fun doing it, especially in
this family-based setting where
we work very long hours for most
of the year, it’s good to be in a spot
where we’re all enjoying it.
That Braverman family
of yours on “Parenthood”
sure does like to spend a lot of
time with each other.
It’s a TV show! You know, I
think that’s what makes the
show connect with viewers — everyone can relate to these characters in some way. Luckily for me,
I’ve never found out that I actually have a kid out there. It’s weird.
On one hand, it’s ultra-realistic
— families don’t come together
in these nice and neat little packages. But on the other hand, we’re
always together, and that doesn’t
usually happen. It’s like a hyperreality, but if you’re going to enjoy
Superman, you have to get over
flying. Somehow all of our characters work 35 hours a week and
raise kids and are able to be with
each other all the time.
You’ve really put together
an eclectic career so far,
from starring in TV and movies
to the behind-the-scenes work of
writing and directing. Is there a
specific area that appeals to you
more than others?
There’s this common perception that actors are driving the ship or that people are
more into directing. But really, for
me, I don’t care how it takes shape

Q:

A:

Q:
A:

Q:
A:

— whether it’s acting, writing, directing. There’s no master plan.
When you make a master plan,
or rather, when I make a master
plan, the universe collapses. I’m
aimless ... never aiming. I used to
think I’d never do a TV show and
now I’m on a TV show and I love
it. Fifteen years from now, who
knows? I may hate TV. If I learned
anything in this wild world of
ours, it’s that I don’t really make
those kinds of plans anymore.
I’m just interested in working on
good, solid projects with talented
people. And I love working.
Do you miss Michigan at
all?
For some unknown reason
this summer, L.A. was very
humid, and I loved it. It totally
reminded me of Michigan, and
that’s when I start missing that
lake living, those warm nights.
There was a time when I would
have American Coney Island ship
out coneys on ice, and I would
host Coney dog parties. I wish
Lafayette would get it together.
Yeah, of course, we come back
and see family and hit the lakes.
... But those party days of mine,
where I’ve spent many days of
my youth checking out bands
and hanging out at places like
the Lager House, those days of
$1 PBRs (Pabst Blue Ribbons),
are long gone.
Have you been keeping up
with all the different projects in Michigan?
It’s interesting, that’s for
sure. Most actors live in
Los Angeles, and — I don’t know
— it’s actually got to be kind of
hard. It’s cool for Michigan, and
everyone knows I’m from there,
so I hear a lot of things about
people working there. But for me,
I’ve been living in Los Angeles for
15 years now, and if there was a
version of “Parenthood” that was
going to be set up in Philadelphia
... I love Philly, but I can’t move to
Philly. I can’t leave L.A. now.
I guess I’m just really selfish. I mean, if I told my fiancee
I just got a job in Philly, she’d be
like, “What the ...?!?” For actors,
working on a TV show is very
time-consuming — you’re going
to be working on that like nine
or 10 months out of the year. And
it’s not like these NBA athletes
where we’re going to make $20
million for this one season: “Here
you go. Come do it.” I probably
sound like a real jerk. I did mention I am very selfish, right?

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“ It’s a lack of awareness. People are still
going into the ER and getting that tetanus
shot instead of the Tdap.”
— Heather Kaisner, immunization coordinator
for Deschutes County Health Services

A push to prevent
whooping cough
Combining booster with tetanus shots
would help, local health officials say
By Markian Hawryluk

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recommended that doctors start using a combination shot, known as Tdap, that includes
boosters for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, instead of the tetanus-diphtheria booster,
or Td, they had been using.
But five years later, many patients still
aren’t getting the Tdap booster when they
need a tetanus shot. Each time a patient gets a
Td booster instead, it represents a lost opportunity to control the spread of pertussis.
“It’s a lack of awareness,” said Heather Kaisner, immunization coordinator for Deschutes
County Health Services. “People are still going
into the ER and getting that tetanus shot instead
of the Tdap.”
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on’t think you have the time or
the money to prepare healthy
food? Well, put down that frozen pizza, because we’re here to
prove you wrong.
The Bulletin recruited
NUTR
four local nutrition experts
to give us their recipes for
quick-to-make meals that provide a lot
of nutrition without breaking the bank.
They each sent in a full dinner that you
can make for a family of four for $18 or
less.
Nutrition experts also gave us some
general tips for making your meals less
expensive without sacrificing nutrition.
One of the biggest complaints that

Laura Spaulding hears is that fresh
fruits and vegetables are too expensive. Spaulding, director of the Women,
Infants and Children program at the
Deschutes County Health
I T I O N Department, said it’s
cheaper to buy fruits and
vegetables that are in season, which are often the same ones that
are on sale.
She also said that frozen vegetables
are a great substitute for fresh and, depending on how they are processed,
sometimes more nutritious.
Julie Hood, a registered dietitian and
associate professor at Central Oregon
Community College, advised us to eat

the way the food pyramid is structured.
That means the bulk of your diet should
come from whole grains, then fruits and
vegetables, with meat and dairy as the
smallest part of your daily intake. “If we
do that, it’s a lot cheaper,” she said.
Lynne Oldham, a registered dietitian
at St. Charles Bend, said she sees a lot
of people wasting money on soda. Buy
tea instead, she advises, which is both
cheaper and better for you.
Oldham also had an idea for one of the
quickest and cheapest meals of all. “I’m
a big fan of sweet potatoes. Microwave
them, and then add any topping.”
If you like that one, you’ll love the
four cheap dinners below.

The one theory of stretching
everyone seems to agree on can
be summed up in two words:
Don’t bounce.
After that, pull the ring tab
and step back. Broaching the topic, triathlon F I T N
coach Tommy Johnson
says, is like “opening
up a can of worms.”
What, you may ask, could
possibly be contentious about
something that is supposed to
keep you injury-free and immune from soreness?
Plenty, it turns out. “There is a
bit of a controversy about whether you should stretch at all,” says
Dallas trainer Ron Incerta.
When USA Track & Field
conducted a clinical trial of almost 3,000 runners, the results,
published last month, were essentially a wash: Those who

stretched had the same injury
risk as those who didn’t.
A Nebraska Wesleyan University study deflated another
theory, the idea that flexibility achieved through stretching
makes for a better runner. The
results showed that
E S S runners with tighter
muscles are more economical runners than
those who are more flexible.
“If you want to stretch because you’re tight and think
you’ll become more flexible, I
don’t see that as the case,” says
Plano, Texas, physical therapist
Jake Spivey. “Stretching isn’t
to improve the length of the
tissue, but to prepare the tissue for exercise and not create
injury during the course of it. If
you just take off, you can create
overuse issues such as tendonitis or bursitis.”
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Next week
New statewide pilot project begins this month
to try to coordinate care for highest-cost patients.

Few patients enroll in federally subsidized high-risk pools

Study shows
why some
want redo
of nose job

By Phil Galewitz

By Jeannine Stein

Kaiser Health News

Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — Ruth Titus,
a 59-year-old cook from Taos,
N.M., leaped at the opportunity
in July to sign up for health insurance under a new federally
subsidized program for uninsured people with health problems. With her history of bladder
cancer, she said, “it was hopeless
to even look” for private coverage because she would be turned
down.
Titus is one of what some officials say has been an unexpectedly small number of people to
sign up for the program, which
the Obama administration touted
as an early benefit of the new
health overhaul law. It began last
month in 30 states with the expectation that many thousands
of uninsured people would apply
for the opportunity to get comprehensive coverage regardless
of their health status, but that
hasn’t been the case.
About 3,600 people have applied and about 1,200 have been
approved so far in state plans
that started in the beginning of
July, according to data from the
states and federal government.
Officials say the new plans, although they’re a better deal than
anything comparable on the private market, still may be unafThinkstock
fordable for many people. Eligi- High-risk people can sign up for new programs that went into efbility requirements are another fect in July as part of the new health care overhaul. However, the
possible barrier, and states have programs in 30 states are seeing fewer applicants than expected.
had little time to publicize the
plans.
It’s too soon to gauge the pro- because insurers no longer will a 40-year-old would pay $275 a
gram’s impact — the plans won’t be able to discriminate based on month.
be up and running in all the states health status.
Titus pays $251 monthly for her
The Congressional Budget Of- policy, which includes a $2,000
until September — but some offifice has estimated that as many deductible.
cials are surprised.
“It’s early, but thus far inter- as 4 million uninsured Americans
“It was a huge relief,” she said
est in the program is lower than will be eligible and that 200,000 after she obtained coverage. “Even
will be enrolled by 2013. though it’s expensive, it is nothing
we expected,” said MiThat projection assumes like trying to pay out of pocket for
chael Keough, the exthat some people won’t every day in the hospital.”
ecutive director of the
be interested or won’t
North Carolina Health
Applicants may be put off by
be able to afford the eligibility criteria. They must
Insurance Risk Pool,
premiums.
which started July 1.
have been uninsured for at least
HEALTH
The new plans are six months and have pre-existing
As of Tuesday, 314 peoCARE
seen as a big improve- conditions. They also must prove
ple had applied and 158
had been approved.
REFORM ment over existing that a private insurer has rejected
“high-risk” programs in them for coverage within the past
GettingUSCovered,
many states that provide six months or denied coverage for
Colorado’s
program,
has received 204 applications; 108 an option — often at a very high certain benefits. At least a dozen
people are enrolled. It’s a “very cost and after long waiting peri- states give applicants the option
low number given that there are ods — to people who have diffi- of providing doctors’ notes as
hundreds of thousands of unin- culty getting insurance.
proof that they have pre-existing
Not everyone can afford the conditions such as cancer or rheusured in the state,” said Suzanne
Bragg-Gamble, the executive new plans’ premiums, however, matoid arthritis.
although they’re cheaper than
director.
Officials with the state plans
Many states were so worried those of the existing high-risk also point to a lack of publicity.
about not being able to meet the programs. Federal regulations Government Employees Health
demand for coverage with limited prohibit the new plans from Association, the Kansas City, Mo.,
federal funding that 22 of them charging more when people have company that has the federal condeferred to the U.S. Department health problems, though.
tract to run the plans in 22 states,
Premiums vary from plan to said it hadn’t yet started a major
of Health and Human Services to
run the new plans. The other 28 plan and are affected by appli- marketing campaign.
states and the District of Colum- cants’ ages, where they live and
whether they smoke. For exambia opted to start their own.
Kaiser Health News, an
Enrollees must pay premiums ple, the monthly premium for a editorially independent news
for their coverage, which is com- person age 45 to 54 who doesn’t service, is a program of the
prehensive and doesn’t exclude smoke ranges from $330 in Ha- Kaiser Family Foundation,
any pre-existing conditions. The waii to $556 in Florida, according a nonpartisan health care
federal government is subsidizing to HHS. A 50-year-old nonsmok- policy-research organization
the program with $5 billion until er in Denver would pay $397 a that isn’t affiliated with Kaiser
2014, when the program will end month with a $2,500 deductible; Permanente.

Despite how aesthetic plastic surgery is portrayed on reality shows, there isn’t always
a happy ending. A study released in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery finds that
people who want revisions on
their nose jobs may do so because they don’t like the way
their nose looks — most cited
an asymmetrical tip — or
functions.
The study surveyed 104
people (83 percent women)
who had undergone at least
one or more rhinoplasties
(also known as nose jobs)
and were interested in redoing them. The most common
aesthetic concerns among
patients and doctors were tip
asymmetry, the middle third
of the nose being crooked,
and having an irregularity in
the upper third of the nose.
About two-thirds of the
patients also had subjective
complaints about nasal obstruction, and the most common problems were having
the sensation of nasal blockage, breathing through the
mouth, and snoring. Physicians backed up 94 percent
of those concerns by finding
something that was causing a
nasal obstruction.
The survey also revealed
that surgeons dealt with 79
percent of the patients’ worries about aesthetic issues. But
patients also said that only 55
percent of the surgeons’ findings mattered to them. The authors noted that this was similar to another study that found
surgeons are more critical of
how patients look post-op than
the patients themselves.

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Denise Hirschberg has joined
the staff of the Center for Integrated Medicine as an acupuncturist.
Hirschberg is a graduate of the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine
in Portland.
Alison Elsberry has joined the
staff of the Center for Integrated
Medicine as an occupational ther- Joyce Stahly
Dr. Ann
apist. Elsberry uses craniosacral
Clemens
therapy, a light-touch practice, in
conjunction with occupational
therapy concepts.
Joyce Stahly has joined the staff of Cascade Hand Therapy. Stahly
has 16 years of specialty experience with hand injury, burn injuries in
the upper extremity and orthopedics of the arm and hand.
Megan Haase has been appointed the CEO of Mosaic Medical, overseeing health centers in Prineville, Bend and Madras. Haase previously served Mosaic Medical as medical director and interim executive
director.
Dr. Ann Clemens has joined the staff of Bend Memorial Clinic’s urgent
care department. Clemens is a former employee of Presbyterian Urgent Care in Albuquerque, N.M. She is a graduate of Jefferson Medical
College in Philadelphia and the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor,
Maine. She completed her residency at the University of New Mexico.
O’Neill Orthodontics has opened a new office at 745 N.W. Mt. Washington Drive, #204, Bend. The practice is led by Dr. Casey O’Neill.
Redmond-Sisters Hospice has opened an office in Bend, at 701
N.W. Hill St. The office will be open Tuesdays and Thursdays, or by
appointment.

Costs of infections
Costs of infections
According to the Agency for Health Research and Quality, about one out of
every 500 patients admitted to the hospital will acquire an infection at some
time during the stay. In 2007, such infections increased the cost, the length
of stay and the risk of death significantly.

Total hospital stays: 22,076,386
Rate of infection: 0.19%

Days in hospital
2 4 .4

Hospital stay with infection
Hospital stay without infection

5 .2

Average total cost to hospital
Hospital stay with infection
Hospital stay without infection

$ 5 2 ,0 9 6
$ 9 ,3 7 7

Percent who died in hospital
Hospital stay with infection
Hospital stay without infection

9%
1 .5 %

Source: Agency for Health Research and Quality
Andy Zeigert / The Bulletin

CHICKEN WITH BROCCOLI AND POTATOES
Annie Williamson, a registered dietitian at Bend Memorial Clinic, said she likes this meal because it can be
made quickly and easily, particularly if you cook the
potatoes either partially or wholly in the microwave.
She also put it together, she said, because it contains a variety of different foods. The chicken contains lean protein; a typical portion contains just
10 percent of your daily recommended amount of
fat. The broccoli and potatoes, she said, are good
sources of fiber and of vitamins A and C.
4 boneless skinless chicken
breasts
1 to 1¼ C dried Italian bread
crumbs
1 to 2 eggs
2 broccoli crowns
1 lemon

1. Crack eggs into a bowl and dip in chicken breasts to coat. Roll
in bread crumbs. Bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
2. Wash and chop broccoli. Steam for a couple of minutes, longer if you want it more tender. Sprinkle with lemon juice.
3. Wash and bake potatoes. (Can microwave or bake in the oven
until soft.) Serve with small amounts of butter and sour cream.

QUESADILLA PIE AND SPANISH RICE

Lori Brizee, registered dietitian at Central Oregon
Nutrition Consultants, submitted this recipe. Macaroni and cheese is a kid-pleaser, and the homemade version has more protein, calcium and
whole grains, with much less sodium than the
packaged mix. With all the cheese, the main
dish is fairly high in fat; Brizee said pairing it
with a low-fat salad and no-fat dessert rounds
out the meal.
The macaroni and cheese contains fiber, B
vitamins and calcium. The salad gives a healthy
dose of vitamins A and C and folic acid. The fruit
slushy adds more fiber along with potassium, vitamins
and antioxidants.

1. Bring water to a boil, add macaroni and cook for 8 to 10 minutes. Drain.
2. While macaroni is cooking, shred cheese. Mix cold milk with
cornstarch and optional seasonings in a heavy saucepan until
cornstarch is dissolved. Heat mixture over medium to high heat,
stirring constantly until mixture comes to a boil and thickens.
3. Add shredded cheese and stir until melted. Mix with cooked
macaroni and serve.

Julie Hood, a registered dietitian and associate professor at Central Oregon Community College, said she liked this meal
SALAD
because it is tasty, cheap and easy to make. She liked
Chopped green lettuce
that it contained plenty of protein, with the whole
Cherry tomatoes (we chose grape tomatoes
Macaroni
rice and beans, without using meat, which can
because they were cheaper)
and cheese
be more expensive.
Chopped carrot
This meal contains all the food groups,
Sliced radishes
Hood said, including some produce and dairy
from the cottage and shreeded cheeses.
Toss together and serve with salad
Spinach contains a lot of nutrients, includdressing you have or make your own using a heaping amount of vitamins A and K
ing the recipe below.
and a good serving of folic acid. Spinach
also contains iron, as do the beans, makVINAIGRETTE SALAD DRESSING
ing this dish rich in a nutrient that many of
(Makes 16 TBS)
us do not get enough of.
½ C red wine vinegar
½ C olive oil
1
⁄8 tsp sugar
QUESADILLA PIE
1 C salsa
¼ tsp Italian seasonings
1 bunch or bag fresh or
1C
1
⁄8 tsp dry mustard
frozen spinach, chopped
canned
2 C low-fat cottage cheese
corn
Mix together well and drizzle over salad. (Note:
1 egg
2 tbsp
Here at The Bulletin, we’ve been known to make
¼ C grated Mexican cheese
chopped
a decent vinaigrette by taking any vinegar in the cupblend
cilantro
board and adding olive oil at a ratio of two parts oil to one part
2 cloves garlic (or ¼ tsp garlic 8 large flour tortillas
vinegar. You can spice it up, but you don’t have to.)
powder)
Extra cheese for top of
1 can black beans
tortillas
FRUIT SLUSHY
2 C any frozen fruit (we chose
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Steam or microwave spinach 2 C any fresh fruit (we chose
strawberries)
and squeeze out excess water. Put spinach in large bowl.
bananas)
2. In another bowl, blend cottage cheese, egg, cheese blend and
garlic. Add to spinach and mix all together.
Place fresh fruit in the blender and blend. Add frozen fruit and
3. Add beans, salsa, corn and cilantro and mix.
continue to blend until liquefied. Eat with spoon or drink with a
4. Place a tortilla on a baking sheet. Spoon some of mixture on straw.
top and spread evenly. Place a tortilla on top of mixture and sprinkle with cheese.
5. Repeat with all 8 tortillas to make 4 pies.
Macaroni and cheese is a kid-pleaser, and the
6. Bake for 30 minutes and spoon salsa on top when done.
SPANISH RICE
1 C brown rice

2 to 2½ C water to cook rice
Salsa

Cook rice in rice cooker or on stove. Mix in salsa.

homemade version has more protein, calcium
and whole grains, with much less sodium than
the packaged mix.

How to have a healthy frozen meal
Daily Press (Newport News, Va.)
Frozen dinners are convenient,
but many also are high in fat, calories and salt. Here’s advice from
dietitians on making the meals as
nutritious as possible.
Read labels. Aim for entrees
with fewer than 400 calories and
no more than 30 percent of those
calories from fat. Keep saturated
fat at less than six grams — less
than four if possible — and sodium under 600 milligrams.
Check the ingredients. You want
meals with lots of vegetables, lean
grilled meats and whole grains

such as brown rice. Avoid heavy
cream sauces and lots of cheese.
Watch portion sizes. A package marketed as a single meal
actually might contain several
servings.
Supplement with healthy sides.
Add vitamins, protein and calcium to your meal by pairing a
frozen dinner with a small salad,
fruit cup, low-fat yogurt with berries or a glass of low-fat milk. The
extra food also will satisfy your
appetite, especially if your entree
is less than 300 calories.
Go light on added sauces. If

a meal comes with a separate
packet of seasoning, use less of it
to slice sodium content (and often
fat and calories, too).
Don’t be fooled by advertising.
A package marked with words
such as “healthy,” “natural” or
“organic” isn’t necessarily good
for you.

Know the best and worst. Generally, potpies with crust and pizzas with extra cheese or stuffed
crust tend to be diet busters. On
the flip side, entrees from Lean
Cuisine, Smart Ones or Healthy
Choice often are your smartest
options — although you still need
to check labels.

Black beans

BLACK BEANS AND RICE WITH APPLE CRISP
Lynne Oldham, a registered dietitian at St. Charles Bend, said
this meal is quick; she estimates it would take about 45 minutes,
with most of the time spent waiting for the rice to cook.
She advises that people buy brown rice, which, unlike white rice,
contains nutrients that protect against cancer, heart disease, high
cholesterol, Type 2 diabetes and weight gain.
Beans are a great source of iron, Oldham said, and a cheap way
to get protein.
The toppings — salsa, avocado, tomato and cheese — contain a
number of nutrients including vitamins A and C, calcium and, from
the tomatoes, lycopene, an antioxidant that may lower your risk of
some cancers.
BLACK BEANS AND RICE
1 C brown rice
2 to 2½ C water to cook rice
1 can black beans

Cook according to mix directions. If you can’t find the mix, which
we found in the produce section, you can substitute a mixture of
brown sugar, oatmeal, wheat flour and spices. Combine dry ingredients, then cut softened butter into mix until there is no powder
left. Place apples in baking dish and sprinkle mixture over the top.
Bake at 375 degrees for 30 to 45 minutes or until juice is bubbling
and apples are soft.

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DID YOU KNOW?
Avocados are plentiful this year,
but what makes them so good?
Did you miss the annual California
Avocado Festival in Santa Barbara
last weekend? No problem. It’s a
bumper crop this year, according
to the California Avocado
Commission, which represents
growers in the state that produces
the majority of domestic avocados.
Test your knowledge, then head
to your local produce stand or
supermarket to take advantage of
the bounty.

2.

What percent of an avocado’s
calories come from fat?
a) 20
b) 45
c) 80
d) 95
True or false: Most of the fats in
avocados are monounsaturated
fats, which can raise levels of good
cholesterol and have beneficial
effects on the heart.

Kids with food allergies
may be targeted by bullies
By Jeannine Stein
Los Angeles Times

As if kids with food allergies
didn’t have enough to deal with
at school, now they may have
to worry about being bullied. A
study finds that some children
who have food allergies could be
the target of bullies — and some
of those bullies could be teachers.
A new report in the journal
Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology finds that about onequarter of children surveyed said
they were bullied because of their
food allergies. Researchers gave
surveys to 353 children and teens
with food allergies; the vast majority were completed by parents.
The survey revealed that about
24 percent of the participants had
been bullied, teased or harassed
because of their allergies. About
86 percent of this group said they
had been harassed more than
once and that it occurred most
often at school. (Most children
reported having multiple food allergies, but peanut allergies were
most common.)
When asked why they were
bullied, about 79 percent said it
was because of the food allergy
and the rest thought they were
bothered because of a number of
related issues, including having to
carry medication, being set apart
at mealtimes and getting special
treatment. Among those who had
been bullied, about 44 percent said
that the food they were allergic

Which food
is more filling?
By Sam McManis
McClatchy-Tribune News Service

You say you just ate a ton of
calories for breakfast but still feel
hungry? Obviously, you haven’t
consulted Nutrition Data’s handy
“Fullness Factor” chart. It lists
the satiating effects of foods, with
the more calorie-dense offerings
supporting weight loss.
Take our quiz to see if you can
pick which of two options feels the
more filling per calorie of food.
1. Grapefruit or raisins?
2. Spaghetti or popcorn?
3. Macaroni and cheese or
brown rice?
4. Pizza or watermelon?
5. Roasted chicken breast or
broiled sirloin steak?
6. Oatmeal or banana?
A N SWER S: 1: Grapefruit; 2: Popcorn; 3: Mac
’n’ cheese; 4: Watermelon; 5: Chicken breast;
6: Oatmeal
Source: www.self.com/fooddiet/blogs/
nutritiondata

to had been waved in their face.
However, none of the participants
reported having an allergic reaction as a result of being bullied.
Most of the bullies were classmates, but about 18 participants
said a teacher or other school staff
member had done the teasing.
Emotional issues were one fallout, with some children saying
they felt depressed, embarrassed
and humiliated because of the teasing. In the study, the authors wrote,
“These actions pose a risk of psychological harm in all people, but
unique to this population is that bullying, teasing,or harassment can
also pose a direct physical threat
when the allergen is involved.”

MINNEAPOLIS — Before
Simone French was one of the
nation’s foremost researchers
on eating habits — long before her studies warned about
fast-food marketing and Coke
machines in
schools — she
was a teen
who snacked
after school
on Twinkies
and dined at
Burger King.
Which is
to say she un- Simone
derstands the French
cravings and
time crunches and cost concerns that make
people choose unhealthy foods
even when they know they
shouldn’t. “Right now,” she
said, “the easy choice is the unhealthy choice.”
French, 46, is part of a powerhouse team at the University
of Minnesota’s School of Public Health that won a $7 million federal grant last month to
change the habits of hundreds
of families. The project is part
of an ongoing university research program that seeks
to motivate better health and
eating through studies of family dinners, school lunches and
food commercials.
The project is one of the first
times that researchers will

wrap multiple, proven solutions
around families all at once, including health advisers, classes
on eating and exercise, and
vouchers for healthy food that
researchers will make sure is
stocked in neighborhood stores.
“If this doesn’t work,” French
said, “I don’t know what will.”
Raised by a single mom,
French sympathizes with parents. Families with two working parents struggle to find
time to make dinner, she notes.
Those in poorer neighborhoods
might lack safe parks for exercise or affordable produce in
local stores.
Nonetheless, she said, “Parents really are the home environment managers. They decide when (families) watch TV
or how much McDonald’s they
eat or when they’re going to get
the frosted Lucky Charms.”
In addition to the time and
money pressures they face,
today’s parents were raised on
the novelty of TV dinners and
didn’t gain their parents’ cooking skills, she said. So Many
parents she meets in her work
are struggling to instill good
habits in their children while
continuing their own bad ones.
“They want their kids to eat
well, but they don’t want to
stop” drinking soda or munching potato chips, she said. “It
doesn’t work because you have
to be a role model, and you have
to decide what kind of food to

bring into the house.”
At first glance, French seems
to be fighting a losing battle. The
U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention has estimated
that 34 percent of American
adults are obese. Another 34 percent are overweight.
French believes research is
starting to chip away at that trend
by motivating insurers, employers, schools and governments to
enact good health policies.
French supports tougher laws
to reverse the nation’s obesity
epidemic. Schools should dump
soda machines, even if they provide valuable revenue, she said.
She also supports restrictions
on foods that can be bought

through government assistance
programs.
French’s latest grant is designed to prevent childhood
obesity, but she said that will
happen only by influencing parents and making eating well an
easier choice. Recruiting hasn’t
started, but families are already
calling, she said. “People do feel
overwhelmed.”
Critics have already suggested that the grant is a waste
and that obese people need to
toughen up and control their eating. But French said that kind of
cynicism ignores the personal
and social challenges that have
made 70 percent of Americans
overweight.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Ten years
ago a little girl from Colorado
made medical history when her
parents and her doctor at the University of Minnesota used genetic
screening to create a baby that
could save her life.
Now, 16 years old and back in
Minnesota for her 10-year checkup, Molly Nash is unimpressed
that her little brother — her irritating little brother — became a
“savior sibling” by giving her his
umbilical cord blood — the sole
reason she’s alive today to back
sass her parents.
Her parents, however, know
what was at stake. Jack and Lisa
Nash were offered a long-shot
chance to save the life of their
daughter and to have more children who did not have the fatal
disease they both carry in their
genes.
“I thank God every day that I
have a 16-year-old to fight with,”
said Lisa Nash, who brought Molly to the university last week.
When their story first became
public, reaction from around the
globe ranged from astonishment
to horror and helped fuel the backlash against embryonic research.
Molly’s doctor at the university,
Dr. John Wagner, was accused of
playing God.
Over the decade the ethical debate has subsided and the reproductive technologies they used
to conceive and test their second
child have become mainstream.
But Wagner and others who
have watched the technologies
advance and spread say the larger
ethical questions raised by the
Molly Nash case are more urgent
than ever. They say government
and professional oversight of
reproductive technology is long
overdue.
“The question is: Will you say
no to anything that parents will
ask for?” said Jeff Kahn, director of the university’s Center for
Bioethics.
Molly Nash was born with a
severe type of Fanconi anemia, a
blood disorder that almost always
results in leukemia by the age of
10. It’s rare, but far more common among people of Eastern
European Jewish descent like the
Nashes, who live in Englewood,
Colo. Until Molly was born they
had never heard of it and had no
idea that they each carried a gene
for it.
The only treatment is a bone
marrow transplant. The greatest
likelihood of success is when the
donor marrow comes from a sibling who has genetically identical
tissue, called HLA.
The Nashes thought they would
never have more children — until
Wagner, an expert in bone marrow transplantation, came to
them with a novel idea.
They could use in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to produce several
embryos, then genetically test all
of them for both Fanconi anemia
and HLA type. If the genetic dice
rolled in their favor, they would
choose the healthy embryo, have
a healthy baby and Wagner could
use the infant’s umbilical cord
blood as a source of new bone
marrow for Molly.
It took several rounds of in-vitro fertilization, and tens of thousands of dollars borrowed from
Jack’s parents, to get an embryo
that cleared both hurdles. But six
weeks after Adam was born, Molly got her transplant.
Then the headlines hit. One
of the most memorable for Lisa
Nash was the New York Post’s
— “Frankenstein Baby.” One of
Wagner’s favorites was “Evolution Is Dead.”
“How did we go from saving
a child to evolution is dead?” he
said.
Few questioned the Nashes’
decision to use genetic testing so
they could have a child without
Fanconi anemia. The critics focused on their decision to use genetic screening to select a child for
a trait that would benefit someone
else, Kahn said. Also, it raised the
question of whether they wanted
another child or were simply trying to save Molly.
“People have all sorts of motivations for having children,”
Kahn said. “Some are virtuous,
and some not so much. At least
they had a good reason for having
a child.”

Richard Sennott / Minneapolis Star Tribune

Molly Nash, left, cuddles her
4-week-old brother, Adam, in
2000 in Minnesota. Molly, now
16, suffers from Fanconi anemia and received an umbilical
cord blood transplant from her
baby brother when she was 6.
The Nashes said they found
some of the reaction ludicrous.
After all, they simply used a few
teaspoons of Adam’s umbilical
cord blood that would otherwise
“have hit the trash can,” Lisa Nash
said. “And Adam is not a designer
baby.”
Since Molly’s transplant Wag-

ner has done the same with “savior siblings” for dozens of other
children with Fanconi anemia and
other disorders. Genetic testing of
embryos is done for hundreds of
different types of diseases at IVF
clinics and transplant centers
across the country. Wagner has
recently pioneered “savior sibling” bone marrow transplants
for children with a type of genetic
skin disease, and he’s finding that
the transplanted marrow cells are
capable of making new skin.
But he’s encountered a number
of cases that have made him uneasy and, he said, make the case
for regulation and oversight of IVF
clinics and transplant centers.
Today all the major IVF clinics
do genetic testing of embryos at the
parents’ request. The Nashes used
it for their third child, who is now 7.
Most of the time, according to
a 2005 survey of IVF clinics, they
did it to test for diseases and HLA
tissue typing. But about one time
out of 10, it was used for gender
selection, according the survey.
Eventually, Kahn said, as more
genes for traits such as hair color
or height or skin type are identified, the choices facing parents
will expand as well.
“Is it time to think about external oversight?” he said.

Multiple sclerosis, symptoms can be treated with drugs
Reality TV star and White House crasher Michaele
Salahi announced last month that she has multiple
sclerosis. According to the National MS Society,
multiple sclerosis is a chronic, often disabling disease
that attacks the central nervous system. The condition
is unpredictable and can affect different people in
different ways. Symptoms can range from numbness
in the limbs to paralysis or loss of vision. MS occurs
when the body’s defense system attacks myelin, the
fatty sheath that protects nerve fibers. The damaged
myelin forms scar tissue, known as sclerosis, which
gives the disease its name.
The damage to the sheath and the nerve fibers
interrupts or distorts the signals sent from the brain

and the spinal cord, resulting
in a variety of symptoms. MS is
not considered a fatal disease
as most patients live a normal or
near-normal life span. Women
are two to three times more
likely to be diagnosed than
men, and most are diagnosed
between the ages of 20 and 50.
Michaele
Although there is no cure for
Salahi
MS, a number of medications
have been approved to treat the
condition and its symptoms.
— Markian Hawryluk, The Bulletin

An early sign of autism? Possibly
By Shari Roan
Los Angeles Times

Infants frequently gaze at people’s faces. It’s as if they’re fascinated and, perhaps, yearning
for interaction with the people
in their lives. Infants who don’t
exhibit this fondness for human
faces, researchers say, may be
exhibiting one of the first signs
of autism.
With autism rates soaring
over the last decade, researchers
are seeking the earliest clues of
the disorder. The sooner a child
is diagnosed and begins treatment, experts say, the better the
long-term outcome. In the Sep-

tember issue of the Journal of
Child Psychology and Psychiatry, leading autism researchers
say they think infant gaze is
among the first clues of social
functioning. A hallmark characteristic of autism is an inability
to socialize.
The researchers, from the
Kennedy Krieger Institute in
Baltimore and the University of
Delaware, observed 25 6-monthold infants who were siblings of
children with autism. (Siblings
have a much higher risk of developing the disease.) They were
compared with 25 infants from
families with no history of au-

tism. The infants were observed
performing a task that measured
their ability to learn and their
level of social engagement with
a caregiver.
They found that the infants in
the low-risk group were more
likely to have normal social gazing. They looked at their caregivers, became excited while playing and pointed to the toy. The
high-risk siblings, however, spent
less time looking at their caregivers and more time focused on
the toy. The two groups did not
differ, however, in how well they
learned the game the caregiver
was playing with them.

THE BULLETIN • Thursday, October 7, 2010 F7

M
Doctors call the disease pertussis,
after the bacterium Bordetella
pertussis, which
causes a severe
infection with
symptoms that
can last for
weeks. Here’s a 1
look at how an
infection
develops:

— Heather Kaisner,
immunization coordinator for
Deschutes County Health
Services
“We were already looking at
expanding those age indications
similar to what California did,
and then California happened,”
said Dr. Jennifer Liang, a CDC
epidemiologist. “The process
for (the CDC panel) to work
through that, it’s a longer process. We’re looking to them to
how they’ve expanded the age
and how the uptake has been in
the state.”

Waning immunity
Liang said that pertussis rates
rise and fall over time, and outbreaks tend to be cyclical in
nature. Every five years or so,
pertussis cases spike and more
people gain immunity either by
catching the disease or through
stepped-up immunization campaigns. Then five years later,
when their immunity wanes,
conditions are ripe for another
outbreak.
“The last peak nationwide
was in 2005, so it looks like California is on target with their rise

Markian Hawryluk can be
reached at 541-617-7814 or
mhawryluk@bendbulletin.com.

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C-reactive protein, both markers
for oxidative stress, which damages cells. They also had lower
levels of antioxidant vitamins C
and E, which helps protect cells
from stress.
The findings are evidence of
“an underlying detectable abnormality” in the immune systems
of people with CFS, the authors
said. The finding is intriguing in
light of a meeting this week at the
National Institutes of Health that
is exploring the link between the
xenotropic murine leukemia virus (XMLV) and chronic fatigue
syndrome.

“From a public health
perspective, we’re
really trying to get the
word out. Next time
you go to the doctor,
ask for a Tdap.”

in cases,” Liang said.
Although doctors try to immunize parents and other adults
who will come in contact with
a newborn, a concept called
cocooning, there are few other
reasons an adult might seek a
pertussis booster. It’s why when
adults do need a tetanus booster,
health officials want to make the
most of the opportunity. Costs
of the shots vary, but in general,
Tdap runs about $20 to $30 more
than the Td shot.
According to Darin Durham,
the emergency room manager at
St. Charles Bend, for at least the
past six months, all of the ER
patients requiring tetanus shots
have received Tdap unless they
had a contraindication. Bend
Memorial Clinic is also suggesting patients get the Tdap shot at
their Urgent Care Clinic.
“We offer that as a first recommendation,” said Dr. Randall
Jacobs, an urgent care physician
at the clinic. “We explain that
there are two vaccines available
and this is why the Tdap is important, and most people elect
it.”
Deschutes County health officials have been taking the Tdap
message to doctors, but they’re
also hoping to create more
awareness among patients.
“From a public health perspective, we’re really trying to
get the word out,” Kaisner said.
“Next time you go to the doctor,
ask for a Tdap.”

LOS ANGELES — Teenagers with chronic fatigue syndrome may push themselves
too hard, which contributes
to ongoing fatigue, claim the
authors of a new study.
Researchers followed 301
adolescents with mononucleosis, which often precedes
chronic fatigue syndrome
in teens. They diagnosed 39
teens with chronic fatigue
syndrome six months after
the mononucleosis diagnosis.
That group of adolescents
was compared with 39 of the
youths who had mononucleosis but who had recovered fully after six months. The two
groups were followed for two
more years. At the conclusion
of the study, the researchers
found no differences between
the two groups in the amount
of physical activity before,
during or after the infection. However, the kids with
chronic fatigue syndrome
slept much more during the
day and had much more fatigue, suggesting they paid
a higher price for pushing
themselves to stay active and
keep up with their peers.
The study, published recently in the Archives of
Child & Adolescent Medicine,
was accompanied by several
other studies on chronic fatigue syndrome in teens, a
mysterious and controversial
disorder estimated to affect
1.3 percent to 4.4 percent of
U.S. adolescents.
In another paper, scientists
suggested the importance

of understanding the disorder
and providing effective treatment. A study of 54 adolescents
with chronic fatigue syndrome
showed that about half recovered after two years while the
rest were still severely fatigued
and physically impaired.
Finally, a third study compared
25 children with chronic fatigue
syndrome with 23 healthy kids
and found several differences
in blood tests between the two
groups. The kids with chronic fatigue syndrome had differences
in their white blood cells as well
as higher levels of cholesterol and

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Although pertussis rates in
Oregon are low right now, the
state has seen rates spike in recent years. And public health
officials are closely following a
pertussis outbreak in California, where at least nine babies
have died since January.
Officials from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
said they do not believe the California outbreak is in any way
linked to immunization rates
among children. More than 83
percent of California children
have received the recommended
four doses by age 2. (The rates
in Oregon and in Deschutes,
Jefferson and Crook counties
are all over 80 percent as well.)
“We see the principal
challenge there is ongoing pertussis transmission in teens and
adults, and the very youngest of
children, babies under 2 months
of age, are the most vulnerable
to serious complications of pertussis,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat,
director of the CDC’s National
Center for Immunization and
Respiratory Diseases. “We
think that the challenges are
increasing vaccination of teens
and adults.”
States do not generally track
adult immunization rates, so
there is little good data in Oregon or elsewhere on how many
adults are getting the Td shot
when they could be getting
Tdap. A yet-to-be-published
CDC study found that 61 percent of adults in 2008 had received a tetanus shot within the
previous 10 years.
CDC officials have been
working with California health
departments to ensure that all
new parents can get a Tdap shot
to avoid spreading the disease
to their newborn. And public
health officials are expanding
the age groups that are eligible
to get the pertussis booster. The
two Tdap vaccines — Boostrix
and Adacel — have been approved only for ages 11 to 64.
California health officials are
now giving those shots off-label
to seniors over the age of 64 as
well as to children starting at
age 7.
GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi
Pasteur, which manufacture the
Tdap vaccines, are scheduled to
present new data on the safety
and efficacy of the booster shots
in those age groups at the upcoming meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices at the end of October.

Teens with chronic fatigue
may overextend themselves

Microscopic droplets
carrying Bordetella
pertussis are
inhaled.

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Continued from F1
In adults, pertussis can result
in weeks of coughing, pneumonia, even cracked ribs from
violent coughing fits. But most
adults will recover with time. It
can be much more serious for infants, who don’t receive their first
pertussis immunization until
they are 2 months old. Even then,
infants aren’t fully immunized
until they get multiple doses.
Often those infants are exposed to pertussis by adolescents
or adults whose protection has
waned because they haven’t had
a booster shot. Sometimes those
adults don’t even know they have
pertussis.
“A lot of times, adults and adolescents when they get pertussis, it’s not that serious,” Kaisner
said. “By the time they go to the
doctor, they’ve had the cough
for a long time and the doctors
may not think about testing for
pertussis.”

No more sit-ups, said Cherie
Touchette, a personal trainer at
Juniper Swim & Fitness Center
who teaches a functional core
class there. Instead, Touchette
emphasizes moves that teach
people to keep their spine correctly
aligned while strengthening the
abdominal muscles. “It’s all about
posture, posture, posture,” she
said.
This exercise and all of those in
this series work the muscles in the
abdomen and the back. They can
be done individually or you can
combine all nine; this is the first in
a series that will run in The Bulletin
every other week through January.

How to do it: You’ll need a bar
or some sort of straight stick for
this exercise; Touchette said even
a broomstick will do. Stand up
straight and place the bar behind
you head, holding it vertically
with both hands so it touches
your tailbone and the back of your
head (1). Hinging forward at the
hip, bend forward slightly (2). The
key in this move is keeping the
bar in contact with your head and
tailbone throughout the movement.
Touchette suggests 10 to 20
repetitions for each exercise.
— Betsy Q. Cliff, The Bulletin

Stretch
Continued from F1
What does work best? It’s a
matter, Incerta says, of “dynamic
vs. static stretching.”
A quick lesson here: Dynamic
stretching is basically a foreshadowing of the workout to
come — arms in circles if you’re
a swimmer, for instance; walking or skipping if you’re a runner; maybe doing knee lifts for
other movements.
Static, on the other hand, involves held poses: leaning over
an outstretched leg or bending
toward the ground for 30 seconds or so.
Until February, triathlete Brett
Skyllingstad began his workouts
with traditional static stretches.
Then he did some research and
learned that muscles aren’t ready
for such movement before a workout. Now for 10 minutes before
he begins, he focuses on knee
lifts, side steps and leg swings.
His post-workout stretches are
what his beforehand stretches
once were, holding positions for
30 seconds or so.
“I’ve noticed a huge difference,” says Skyllingstad, 26,
project manager for a construction company and triathlon
coach for Texas Triple Threat. “I
don’t start out feeling flat or have
that normal 10 minutes of feeling
crummy or awkward. It gets your
blood moving and flowing, and
your heart rate more elevated.”
That gradually increased
blood flow is necessary for a successful workout, says Dr. Cindy
Trowbridge, associate professor

Cindy
Trowbridge
demonstrates
a static
stretch to be
done af ter a
work out at
the U niversity
of Texas at
Arlington.
Louis DeLuca
Dallas Morning News

of kinesiology at the University
of Texas at Arlington.
“It’s cardiovascular, getting
your heart rate up and your
heart warmed up so it’s now going to pump blood to your muscles instead of your organs,” says
Trowbridge, clinical education
coordinator of UTA’s athletic
training education program. “In
a resting state, blood is primarily distributed to the organs: the
heart, the brain. It’s secluded
from the muscles unless you’re
using them.”
Warming up with dynamic
stretches starts the blood moving from organs to muscles, says
physical therapist Spivey, whose
practice is SportsCare and
Rehabilitation.
Many amateurs, whether running, biking or swimming, just
take off and start going, he continues. “They think, ‘I’m healthy
now!’ But if you just take off, you
can create overuse issues such as

tendonitis or bursitis. It takes
longer to strengthen muscles and
joints than it does to strengthen
your cardiovascular system.”
Incerta likens the warming-up

process to starting a car in the
middle of winter.
“It won’t run as efficiently if
it’s been sitting in 30-degree
weather,” he says. “The gears
aren’t going to shift right. But if
you turn it on and warm it up for
10 to 15 minutes, it will be fine.
Fluids are going through the
pipes. No problems. It’s similar to
the central nervous system of the
body. If you’re not primed, you’re
not ready to actually do physical
work. Warming up gets all that
fluid going.”
On the other side of the workout is when Trowbridge advocates the stretching we tend to
think of when we hear the word.
You’re telling your body the
workout’s over, she says. You’re
allowing it to rest, to start repairing itself from this workout and
to start preparing itself for the
next one.

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A doctor’s
lifestyle
matters in
counseling
patients
By Jeannine Stein
Los Angeles Times

The last time you saw your doctor, were you counseled about diet
and exercise? If not, it could be because he or she didn’t think they
had sufficient training to do so.
In a study published online in
the journal Preventive Cardiology, trainee physicians and more
experienced attending physicians
were asked about their lifestyle
habits and also whether they
thought they had received adequate training in counseling patients about diet and exercise.
The study participants included
183 doctors, 56 percent of whom
were residents or fellows and considered trainees, and 44 percent of
whom were attending physicians.
Both groups said they didn’t eat
enough fruit and vegetables and
got little exercise. Trainees said
they ate more fast food than did
attending physicians — two fastfood meals per week compared
with fewer than one — and they
exercised less. Among attending
physicians, about 40 percent said
they exercised four or more days
per week, while only about 10
percent of trainees exercised that
much. About 26 percent of attending physicians and about 8 percent of trainees reported getting
more than 150 minutes of aerobic
exercise per week. Meditation and
maintaining a regular yoga practice was a low priority for both.
About 70 percent of attending physicians and 37 percent of
trainees said they counseled twothirds or more of their patients
about lifestyle behaviors such as
nutrition and physical activity.
Both groups said that they counseled patients for less than five
minutes per visit. Most doctors
in both groups felt ill-prepared to
counsel on diet and exercise.
Those who felt most confident
about counseling were more likely
to exercise more than 150 minutes
per week and had sufficient counseling training. But doctors who
were overweight were also more
self-assured about talking to their
patients. In the study, the authors
wrote, “Given that a prior study
on smoking observed that smoking physicians who were considering quitting themselves were
more likely to counsel patients on
smoking cessation, we hypothesize that overweight providers
who are considering changing
their exercise habits may be more
likely to counsel their patients regarding exercise.”

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Reference is made to that certain deed made by Charles E. Clausen Jr., as Grantor to First American Title, as Trustee, in favor of Commonwealth United Mortgage A Division of National City Bank
Of Indiana A National Banking Association, as Beneficiary, dated September 21, 2005, recorded
September 30, 2005, in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. xx at page
No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No. 2005-66707 covering the following described real property situated in said County and State, to-wit:
Lot 42 of Braeburn Phase III,
Deschutes County, Oregon.
Commonly known as:
19322 Brookside Wy Bend OR 97702.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the
obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section
86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the
grantor's: Failure to pay the monthly payment due June 1, 2010 of principal, interest and
impounds and subsequent installments due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all
subsequent sums advanced by beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of
trust. Monthly payment $1,907.45 Monthly Late Charge $75.84. By this reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and
payable, said sums being the following, to-wit; The sum of $316,566.90 together with interest
thereon at 5.750% per annum from May 01, 2010 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon;
and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs and any sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the
terms and conditions of the said deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western
Reconveyance Corporation the undersigned trustee will on January 05, 2011 at the hour of
1:00pm, Standard of Time, as established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the
Bond Street entrance to Deschutes County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of
Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the
said described real property which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the
execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing
obligations thereby secured and the costs and expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by
the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised
Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated
by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of said
principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and
attorney's fees and curing any other default complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering
the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before
the date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine
and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest
to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed, the words "trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective
successors in interest, if any. Dated: September 03, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a
tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this
property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of
the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move
out after giving you a 30- day notice on or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term
lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's
requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give
the trustee of the property written evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the
date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental
agreement, you may give the trustee other written evidence of the existence of the rental
agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the sale is December 06, 2010, the name
of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may grant
you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more
information about you rights under federal law. You have the right to apply your security deposit
and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your rental agreement. If you want
to do so, you must notify your landlord in writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you
believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask
for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this
notice: If you have a low income and meet federal poverty guide-lines, you may be eligible for
free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can obtain free legal assistance is
included with this notice. OREGON STATE BAR 16037 SW Upper Boones Ferry Road Tigard,
Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260 http://www.osbar.org Directory of Legal Aid
Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main
Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004 Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation
Signature/By: Tammy Laird

Reference is made to that certain deed made by Sean A Kluckow and Brianna M. Kluckow Tenants
By The Entirety, as Grantor to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, in favor of National City Mortgage A Division of National City Bank A National Banking Association, as Beneficiary, dated January 02, 2008, recorded January 08, 2008, in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in
book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No.
2008-00985 covering the following described real property situated in said County and State,
to-wit:
Lot 1, block 3, Brightenwood Estates,
Deschutes County, Oregon
Commonly known as:
60685 Newcastle Dr. Bend OR 97702.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of
Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's: Failure to
pay the monthly payment due April 1, 2010 of principal, interest and impounds and subsequent
installments due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all subsequent sums advanced by
beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly payment
$2,219.39 Monthly Late Charge $96.61. By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared
all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the
following, to-wit; The sum of $350,000.00 together with interest thereon at 6.625% per annum
from March 01, 2010 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs and any sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of
the said deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation the undersigned trustee will on December 27, 2010 at the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of Time,
as established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes, State of Oregon,
sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property
which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said
trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the
costs and expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given
that any person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the
foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due
had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any
other default complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under
the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. In
construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular
includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any
other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the
words "trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
August 24, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right
to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a
fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30- day notice on
or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after
the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a
fixed-term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee
other written evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before
the date of the sale is November 27, 2010, the name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a
longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more information about you rights under federal law.
You have the right to apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current
obligation under your rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify your landlord in
writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this
matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice: If you have a low income and
meet federal poverty guide-lines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. OREGON STATE
BAR 16037 SW Upper Boones Ferry Road Tigard, Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260
http://www.osbar.org Directory of Legal Aid Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004
Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation Signature/By: Tammy Laird

Reference is made to that certain deed made by John T. Ristick, and Judith E. Ristick, as Grantor
to David Federal Attorney, as Trustee, in favor of Union Federal Bank of Indianapolis, as Beneficiary, dated January 23, 2003, recorded January 24, 2003, in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No.
2003-05792 covering the following described real property situated in said County and State,
to-wit:
Lot 6 in block 55 of Deschutes River Recreation Homesites, Unit 9, Part 2.
Deschutes County, Oregon. Model: BD565F-4 serial #GW3OREED49204
Manufacturer: Golden West Homes HUD tags ORE199530, ORE199531
Commonly known as:
17053 Sacramento Road Bend OR 97707.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of
Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's: Failure to
pay the monthly payment due April 1, 2010 of principal, interest and impounds and subsequent
installments due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all subsequent sums advanced by
beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly payment
$1,107.59 Monthly Late Charge $36.45. By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared
all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the
following, to-wit; The sum of $108,722.48 together with interest thereon at 6.000% per annum
from March 01, 2010 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs and any sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of
the said deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation the undersigned trustee will on January 10, 2011 at the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of Time, as
established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes, State of Oregon,
sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property
which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said
trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the
costs and expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given
that any person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the
foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due
had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any
other default complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under
the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. In
construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular
includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any
other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the
words "trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
August 30, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right
to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a
fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30- day notice on
or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after
the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a
fixed-term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee
other written evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before
the date of the sale is December 10, 2010, the name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a
longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more information about you rights under federal law.
You have the right to apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current
obligation under your rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify your landlord in
writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this
matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice: If you have a low income and
meet federal poverty guide-lines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. OREGON STATE
BAR 16037 SW Upper Boones Ferry Road Tigard, Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260
http://www.osbar.org Directory of Legal Aid Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004
Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation Signature/By: Tammy Laird

Reference is made to that certain deed made by Ronald R. Vetter, An Unmarried Man and Mary A.
Collister, An Unmarried Woman, as Grantor to Deschutes County Title Company, as Trustee, in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., ("mers") As Nominee For Lehman Brothers
Bank, Fsb, A Federal Savings Bank, as Beneficiary, dated May 23, 2005, recorded May 24, 2005, in
official records of Deschutes, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No. 2005-32043 covering the following described real property situated in said County and State, to-wit:
Lot seven, block one, Clear Sky Estates,
Deschutes County Oregon
Commonly known as:
732 & 734 Southeast 5th St. Bend OR 97702.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of
Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's: Failure to
pay the monthly payment due May 1, 2010 of principal, interest and impounds and subsequent installments due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all subsequent sums advanced by beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly payment $930.13
Monthly Late Charge $37.32. By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the following,
to-wit; The sum of $137,780.49 together with interest thereon at 6.500% per annum from April
01, 2010 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs
and any sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of the said deed of
trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation the undersigned trustee will on December 27, 2010 at the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of Time, as established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes
County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which
the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and
expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any
person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire
amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any other default
complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. In construing
this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the words
"trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: August
24, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your
rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term
lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30- day notice on or after the
date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of
the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your
rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term
lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee other written
evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the
sale is November 27, 2010, the name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on
this notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more information about you rights under federal law. You have the right
to apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your
rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify your landlord in writing and in advance
that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice: If you have a low income and meet federal poverty
guide-lines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can
obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. OREGON STATE BAR 16037 SW Upper
Boones Ferry Road Tigard, Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260 http://www.osbar.org
Directory of Legal Aid Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004 Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation Signature/By: Tammy Laird

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Reference is made to that certain deed made by Richard W. Anglin, Sr. and Gail E. Anglin As Tenants By The Entirety, as Grantor to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., ("mers"), As Nominee For Summit Mortgage Corporation, as
Beneficiary, dated September 05, 2008, recorded September 12, 2008, in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No. 2008-37534 covering the following described real property situated in said County
and State, to-wit:
Lot 4, block 6, Timber Haven First Addition,
Deschutes County, Oregon.
Commonly known as:
15680 Paulina Avenue La Pine OR 97739.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of
Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's: Failure to
pay the monthly payment due May 1, 2010 of principal, interest and impounds and subsequent installments due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all subsequent sums advanced by beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly payment $1,214.14
Monthly Late Charge $50.18. By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the following,
to-wit; The sum of $192,696.20 together with interest thereon at 6.250% per annum from April
01, 2010 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs
and any sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of the said deed of
trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation the undersigned trustee will on December 27, 2010 at the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of Time, as established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes
County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which
the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and
expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any
person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire
amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any other default
complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. In construing
this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the words
"trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: August
24, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your
rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term
lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30- day notice on or after the
date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of
the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your
rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term
lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee other written
evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the
sale is November 27, 2010, the name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on
this notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more information about you rights under federal law. You have the right
to apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your
rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify your landlord in writing and in advance
that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice: If you have a low income and meet federal poverty
guide-lines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can
obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. OREGON STATE BAR 16037 SW Upper
Boones Ferry Road Tigard, Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260 http://www.osbar.org
Directory of Legal Aid Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004 Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation Signature/By: Tammy Laird

Reference is made to that certain deed made by Patricia J. Snow, An Unmarried Woman, as
Grantor to First American Title Insurance Company Of Oregon, as Trustee, in favor of World Savings Bank, Fsb, Its Successors and/or Assignees, A Federal Savings Bank, as Beneficiary, dated
December 08, 2006, recorded December 14, 2006, in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in
book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No.
2006-81607 covering the following described real property situated in said County and State,
to-wit:
Lot 27 of Shevlin Meadows, Phases 1 and 2, City of Bend,
Deschutes County, Oregon.
Commonly known as:
2348 NW Summerhill Drive Bend OR 97701-5293.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of
Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's: Failure to
pay the monthly payment due March 15, 2010 of principal, interest and impounds and subsequent installments due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all subsequent sums advanced
by beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly payment
$1,021.79 Monthly Late Charge $39.44. By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared
all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the
following, to-wit; The sum of $195,900.39 together with interest thereon at 3.238% per annum
from February 15, 2010 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees,
foreclosure costs and any sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions
of the said deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation the undersigned trustee will on January 04, 2011 at the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of Time,
as established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes, State of Oregon,
sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property
which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said
trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the
costs and expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given
that any person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the
foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due
had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any
other default complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under
the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. In
construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular
includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any
other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the
words "trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
August 27, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right
to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a
fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30- day notice on
or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after
the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a
fixed-term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee
other written evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before
the date of the sale is December 05, 2010, the name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a
longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more information about you rights under federal law.
You have the right to apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current
obligation under your rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify your landlord in
writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this
matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice: If you have a low income and
meet federal poverty guide-lines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. OREGON STATE
BAR 16037 SW Upper Boones Ferry Road Tigard, Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260
http://www.osbar.org Directory of Legal Aid Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004
Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation Signature/By: Tammy Laird

LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: xxxxx4448 T.S. No.: 1290365-09.
Reference is made to that certain deed made by David J. Luoma, as Grantor to Amerititle, as
Trustee, in favor of Abn Amro Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, dated August 31, 2005, recorded September 06, 2005, in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. xx
at page No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No. 2005-59627 covering the following
described real property situated in said County and State, to-wit:
Lot five (5), block sixteen (16), Tillicum Village Third Addition,
Deschutes County, Oregon.
Commonly known as:
61356 Eena Ct. Bend OR 97702.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the
obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section
86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the
grantor's: Failure to pay the monthly payment due March 1, 2010 of principal, interest and
impounds and subsequent installments due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all subsequent sums advanced by beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust.
Monthly payment $1,108.65 Monthly Late Charge $42.86. By this reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and
payable, said sums being the following, to-wit; The sum of $141,319.92 together with interest
thereon at 5.500% per annum from February 01, 2010 until paid; plus all accrued late charges
thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs and any sums advance by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms and conditions of the said deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given
that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation the undersigned trustee will on January 07, 2011 at
the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of Time, as established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised
Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of
Bend, County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash
the interest in the said described real property which the grantor had or had power to convey at
the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any interest which the
grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expense of sale, including a reasonable
charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed
reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion
of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs,
trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any other default complained of in the Notice of Default
by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five
days before the date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in
interest to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which
is secured by said trust deed, the words "trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective
successors in interest, if any. Dated: August 30, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant
of this property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this
property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of
the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move
out after giving you a 30- day notice on or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term
lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's
requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give
the trustee of the property written evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the
date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental
agreement, you may give the trustee other written evidence of the existence of the rental
agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the sale is December 08, 2010, the name
of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may grant
you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more
information about you rights under federal law. You have the right to apply your security deposit
and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your rental agreement. If you want
to do so, you must notify your landlord in writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you
believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask
for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this
notice: If you have a low income and meet federal poverty guide-lines, you may be eligible for
free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can obtain free legal assistance is
included with this notice. OREGON STATE BAR 16037 SW Upper Boones Ferry Road Tigard,
Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260 http://www.osbar.org Directory of Legal Aid Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main
Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004 Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation
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Loan No: xxxxxx2266 T.S. No.: 1293174-09.
Reference is made to that certain deed made by Robert T. Ludwick, as Grantor to Western Title
and Escrow Company, as Trustee, in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. As
Nominee For Greater Northwest Mortgage, Inc., A Oregon Corporation, as Beneficiary, dated
March 07, 2007, recorded March 15, 2007, in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in
book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No.
2007-15546 covering the following described real property situated in said County and State,
to-wit:
Unit 21, Greyhawk Condominiums,
Deschutes County, Oregon, described in and subject to that certain declaration of
condominium ownership for Greyhawk Condominiums
Recorded February 1, 2007 in volume 2007, page 06945, Deschutes County Official Records,
together with the limited and general common elements set forth therein appertaining to said unit.
Commonly known as:
1525 Northwest Juniper Street #1 Bend OR 97701.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the
obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section
86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the
grantor's: Failure to pay the monthly payment due April 1, 2010 of principal and interest and
subsequent installments due thereafter; together with all subsequent sums advanced by
beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly payment $764.67
Monthly Late Charge $.00. By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all
obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the
following, to-wit; The sum of $76,280.45 together with interest thereon at 6.750% per annum
from March 01, 2010 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs and any sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of
the said deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance
Corporation the undersigned trustee will on January 07, 2011 at the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of
Time, as established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to
Deschutes County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes, State of
Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
property which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the
said trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the
costs and expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given
that any person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the
foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due
had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any
other default complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under
the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. In
construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular
includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any
other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the
words "trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
September 02, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could
affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the
right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a
fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30- day notice on
or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after
the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out To be
entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written
evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you
have a fixed-term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the
trustee other written evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days
before the date of the sale is December 08, 2010, the name of the trustee and the trustee's
mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a
right to a longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more information about you rights under
federal law. You have the right to apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward
your current obligation under your rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify your
landlord in writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal
assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral
service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice: If you have a
low income and meet federal poverty guide-lines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance.
Contact information for where you can obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice.
OREGON STATE BAR 16037 SW Upper Boones Ferry Road Tigard, Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222
(800)
452-8260
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Reference is made to that certain Trust Deed made by Christian D. Smelser and Jacqueline Parker
Smelser as grantors, to AmeriTitle as trustee, in favor of Umpqua Bank, its successors and/or assigns, as beneficiary, dated August 3, 2006, recorded August 18, 2008, in the mortgage records of
Deschutes County, Oregon, Document No. 2006-56743. The beneficial interest was assigned to
the State of Oregon, by and through the Director of Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs, dated
August 7, 2006, and recorded August 18, 2006, in Document No. 2006-56744, in the mortgage
records of Deschutes County, Oregon, and whereas a successor trustee, Stephen J. Scholz, was
appointed pursuant to ORS 86.790(3) by written instrument, 2010-33439, recorded on August 26,
2010, for said Trust Deed which covers the following described real property situated in said
county and state, to wit:
(SEE LEGAL DESCRIPTION ON NEXT PAGE)
LEGAL DESCRIPTION:
Lot Eleven (11), BRENTWOOD, recorded August 11, 2005, in Cabinet G, Page 776, Deschutes
County, Oregon.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said Trust Deed and a Notice of Default has been recorded on August 26, 2010,
in 2010-33440, Deschutes County, Oregon, pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of Oregon Revised
Statutes; the default for which the foreclosure is made is grantor's failure to pay when due the
following sums:
Full monthly payments in the amount of $2,261.30 due May 1, 2010, and the first day of each
month thereafter through August 1, 2010. Payment delinquency totals $9,045.20.
Late Payments in the amount of $345.28.
Legal Costs in the amount of $1.062.00.
The total amount owing is $10,452.48 as of August 30, 2010.
The mailing address of the above-described real property is 20480 Brentwood Avenue, Bend OR
97702-3289.
By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said Trust Deed
immediately due and payable, said sums being the following to-wit:
The principal sum of $284,665.60 with interest thereon at the rate of 5.625 percent per annum
from April 1, 2010, until paid, plus trustee's fees, attorney's fees, foreclosure costs, and sums
advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms of said Trust Deed.
AFTER RECORDING RETURN TO:
FORECLOSURE SECTION
OREGON DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS
700 SUMMER ST. NE
SALEM OR 97301-1285
Until a change is requested, all tax statements shall be
sent to the following address:
TAX SECTION
OREGON DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS
700 SUMMER ST. NE
SALEM OR 97301-1285
WHEREFORE, notice hereby is given that the undersigned trustee will on February 3, 2011, at the
hour of 10:00 o'clock, a.m., in accord with the Standard of Time established by Section 187.110,
Oregon Revised Statutes, at the front steps of the County Courthouse in the City of Bend, County
of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in
the said described real property which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the
execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his
successors-in-interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the foregoing
obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including a reasonable charge by
the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised
Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Trust Deed reinstated
by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of said
principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) together with costs and trustee's and
attorney's fees as provided by law, at any time prior to five days before the date set for said sale.
In construing this instrument, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, and the
singular includes the plural; the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as
well as each and all other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by
said Trust Deed; the word "trustee" and "beneficiary" include their respective
successors-in-interest, if any.
DATED: August 31, 2010
Successor Trustee
Stephen J. Scholz
Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs
700 Summer Street NE
Salem OR 97301-1285
Phone 503-373-2235

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TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: xxxxxx6986 T.S. No.: 1290541-09.
Reference is made to that certain deed made by Jennifer Shea, as Grantor to Amerititle, as
Trustee, in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. As Nominee For Wealthbridge
Mortgage Corp., An Oregon Corporation, as Beneficiary, dated April 17, 2007, recorded April 26,
2007, in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx,
fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No. 2007-23954 covering the following described real
property situated in said County and State, to-wit:
A tract of land lying in the West Halt of the Southeast Quarter (W1/2 SE1/4) of Section Eight (8),
Township Seventeen (17) South, Range Twelve (12) East of the Willamette Meridian,
Deschutes County, Oregon, more particularly described as follows:
beginning at the South Quarter corner of said Section 8; thence North 89°52' 48" East along the
South Line of said Section 8, 1025.40 feet; thence North 25°08' West along the Northeasterly Right
of Way of the Bend-Tumalo State Highway No. 20, 1982.94 feet (sometimes shown as 1,974.85
feet) to the True Point of Beginning, same being the Northwesterly corner of the Nancy Hoefling
tract described in a deed recorded November 2, 1389, in nook 195, Page 2320, Deschutes County
Records; thence continuing North 25°08' West along said Right of Way, 255,00 feet to the
Southwesterly corner of the Games N. Saul, et ux tract, described in a deed recorded
March 17, 1989, in book 280, Page 1509, Deschutes County Records; thence North 03'10' East,
558.76 feet along the Saul Southerly boundary to the Southeasterly corner thereof; thence South
04'09 West, 99.25 feet; thence South 42'06' East, 105.23 feet to the Northeasterly corner of the
aforementioned Hoefling Tract; thence South 76'37'20" West along Hoefling's Northerly boundary,
524.14 feet to the true point of beginning. EXCEPTING THEREFROM that portion conveyed in
instrument recorded May 3, 2977, in Book 249, Page 657, Deed Records,
Commonly known as:
63743 Scenic Drive Bend OR 97701.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the
obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section
86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the
grantor's: Failure to pay the monthly payment due January 1, 2010 of principal, interest and
impounds and subsequent installments due thereafter; together with all subsequent sums
advanced by beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly
payment $1,918.17 Monthly Late Charge $.00. By this reason of said default the beneficiary has
declared all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums
being the following, to-wit; The sum of $273,278.94 together with interest thereon at 6.125% per
annum from December 01, 2009 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's
fees, foreclosure costs and any sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and
conditions of the said deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation the undersigned trustee will on December 14, 2010 at the hour of 1:00pm,
Standard of Time, as established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street
entrance to Deschutes County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes,
State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said
described real property which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the
execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing
obligations thereby secured and the costs and expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by
the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised
Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated
by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of said
principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and
attorney's fees and curing any other default complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering
the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before
the date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine
and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest
to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed, the words "trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective
successors in interest, if any. Dated: August 06, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant
of this property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the
requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move out
after giving you a 30- day notice on or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease,
you may be entitled to receive after the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's
requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give
the trustee of the property written evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the
date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental
agreement, you may give the trustee other written evidence of the existence of the rental
agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the sale is November 14, 2010, the name
of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may grant
you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more information about you rights under federal law. You have the right to apply your security deposit and
any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your rental agreement. If you want to
do so, you must notify your landlord in writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you
believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask
for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this
notice: If you have a low income and meet federal poverty guide-lines, you may be eligible for
free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. OREGON STATE BAR 16037 SW Upper Boones Ferry Road Tigard, Oregon
97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260 http://www.osbar.org Directory of Legal Aid
Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main
Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004 Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation
Signature/By: Tammy Laird
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LEGAL NOTICE
CIRCUIT COURT,
STATE OF OREGON,
COUNTY OF DESCHUTES
In the Matter of the Estate of
DWIGHT WILLIAM STEWART,
Deceased.
Case No. 10PB0105BH
NOTICE TO INTERESTED
PERSONS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned has
been appointed personal representative. All persons having claims against the estate
are required to present them,
with vouchers attached, to
the undersigned personal
representative c/o the law
office of Carl W. Hopp, Jr.,
168 NW Greenwood Avenue,
Bend, OR 97701, within four
months after the date of first
publication of this notice, or
the claims may be barred.
All persons whose rights may
be affected by the proceedings may obtain additional
personal representative, Carl
W. Hopp, Jr., Attorney at
Law, LLC.
Dated and first published on
September 30, 2010.
Kimberly Ann Walton
Personal Representative
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
THE STATE OF OREGON
FOR THE COUNTY OF
DESCHUTES
Probate Department
In the Conservatorship and
Guardianship of
Nathanial G. Potter,
A Minor.
Case No. 07-PC-0071-AB
NOTICE TO INTERESTED
PERSONS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to
all interested persons, including the biological father
of the minor and pursuant to
ORS 125.065(2), that Temporary Guardians have been
appointed in the above captioned matter. All persons
who object to the Temporary
Guardians being appointed as
the Permanent Guardians are
required to present the objection to Deschutes County
Court at 1100 NW Bond,
Bend, OR 97701 within in 15
days of the publication.
All persons whose rights may
be affected by the proceedings may obtain additional
information from the records
of the court, the Temporary
Guardians, or the lawyer for
the Temporary Guardian, Patricia L. Heatherman, P.C.
Dated and first published on
September 30, 2010.
Patricia L. Heatherman,
OSB #932990
Conservator/Temp Guardian:
Lucinda Downs
61289 SW Brookside Loop
Bend, OR 97701
Tel: (541) 815-3319
Temp Guardian:
David Downs
61289 SW Brookside Loop
Bend, OR 97701
Tel: (541) 815-3319
Attorney for Guardian/
Conservator:
Patricia L. Heatherman,
OSB #932990
Patricia L. Heatherman, P.C.
250 NW Franklin Avenue,
Suite 402
Bend, OR 97701
Tel: (541) 389-4646
Fax: (541) 389-4644
E-mail:
patricia@heathermanlaw.com
LEGAL NOTICE
Legal Notice of Proposed
Action
Opportunity to Comment
Three Trails OHV DEIS
The Crescent Ranger District
on the Deschutes National
Forest has completed a Draft
Environmental
Impact
Statement for a designated
Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV)
trail system and is available
for public comment. It is
called the Three Trails OHV
project and it spans 93,016
acres with a focus on areas
that are currently being most
heavily visited by riders. The
goal is to direct the use to
the most suitable and sustainable places on the landscape while maintain a trail
system and overall recreation experience that riders
want. This proposal would
provide a system of 100+
miles of interlinking trails
that would vary in skill level
and density to match the terrain, link to all staging areas,
and to provide an opportunity for beginner through advanced riding experiences.
Engineered trails would be
connected by a road system
where riders can have a destination for Walker Mountain,
Two Rivers, or Crescent Lake
Junction from any staging
area. In addition, the proposal would close roads, rehabilitate unneeded trails,
and generally locate trails
away from water. The Draft
EIS is available for review at
http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/cen
traloregon/projects/units/cr
escent/index.shtml.
How to Comment and Timeframe: The Environmental
Protection Agency published
a Notice of Availability (NOA)
for the DEIS in the Federal
Register on October 1, 2010.
Written, facsimile, hand-delivered, oral, and electronic
comments concerning this
action will be accepted for 45
days following that date. The
public comment period ends
November 15, 2010. The
publication date of the NOA
in the Federal Register is the
exclusive means for calculating the comment period
for a proposed action documented in a draft EIS. Those
wishing to comment should
not rely upon dates or timeframe information provided
by any other source. The
regulations prohibit extending the length of the comment period. Written comments must be submitted to:
Holly Jewkes, Crescent District Ranger, P.O. Box 208,
Crescent, Oregon. 97733.
The office business hours for
those submitting hand-deliv-

ered comments are 7:45 AM
and 4:30 PM, Monday
through Friday, excluding
holidays.
Oral comments
must be provided at the Responsible Official's office
during normal business hours
via telephone 541-433-3200
or in person, or at an official
agency function (i.e. public
meeting) that is designed to
elicit
public
comments.
Electronic comments must
be submitted in a format
such as an email message,
plain text (.txt), rich text
format (.rtf), and Word (.doc)
to comments-pacificnorthwest-deschutes-crescent@fs
.fed.us.
Comments must
have an identifiable name
attached or verification of
identity will be required. A
scanned signature may serve
as verification on electronic
comments. Those who provide comments during this
comment period are eligible
to appeal the decision under
the regulations. Interest expressed or comments provided on this project prior to
or after the close of this
comment period will not
constitute standing for appeal purposes. Comments
must meet the requirements
of 36 CFR 215.6. Names and
addresses of commentors
will become part of the public record.
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR
QUALIFICATIONS TO BE
PRE-QUALIFIED TO SUBMIT
A BID FOR PROVISION, INSTALLATION and SUPPORT
OF AV EQUIPMENT FOR THE
HEALTH CAREERS AND SCIENCE BUILDING PROJECTS
Respondent
Qualifications
due by 4:00PM local time on
October 28, 2010.
Central Oregon Community
College (the College) desires
to prequalify vendors (the
Vendor) for the provision,
installation and support for
AV equipment in the Health
Career and Science buildings.
The Health Careers building
is scheduled to go out for Bid
in October 2010, with a
summer 2012 completion.
The Science building is anticipated to go out for bid in
January 2011 with a fall 2012
completion.
The College has determined
that prospective bidders for
the AV Equipment must be
pre-qualified prior to submitting a bid. It is mandatory that Vendors who intend to submit a bid provide
a Pre-Qualification Package
that includes a fully completed Pre-Qualification Application and all requested
materials. The College will
evaluate the Pre-Qualification Package and approve
qualified Vendors to be on
the final qualified Bidders
List. No bid will be accepted
from a Vendor that has failed
to comply with these requirements. Vendors are encouraged
to
submit
Pre-Qualification Packages as
soon as possible, so that they
may be notified of omissions
of information to be remedied or of their pre-qualification status well in advance
of the bid advertisement for
this project.
To request a copy of the
Prequalification Application,
contact Julie Mosier, Purchasing Coordinator, by
email at jmosier@cocc.edu,
or
by
telephone
at
541-383-7779.
The submittal deadline is
October 28, 2010 at 4 pm.
Early submissions are welcome. The documents must
be returned to Julie Mosier in
Metolius 212C, 2600 NW
College Way, Bend, OR
97701 by the day and time
specified.
Publication and Dates: Bend
Bulletin, Oregonian, Portland
Daily Journal of Commerce,
and Seattle Daily Journal of
Commerce. First Advertisement 10/7/2010; Second
Advertisement 10/18/2010

LEGAL NOTICE
The regular meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Deschutes County Rural Fire
Protection District #2 will be
held on Tuesday, October 12,
2010 at 11:30 a.m. at the
conference room of the
North Fire Station, 63377
Jamison St., Bend, OR. Items
on the agenda include: an
update on Project Wildfire,
the fire department report, a
report on the Emergency
Services Funding Committee
and a first reading of an ordinance adopting 2010 Oregon
Fire Code.
The meeting location is accessible to persons with disabilities. A request for an interpreter for the hearing
impaired or for other accommodations for persons
with disabilities should be
made at least 48 hours before the meeting to: Tom Fay
541-318-0459.
TTY
800-735-2900.
LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
The Trustee under the terms
of the Trust Deed described
herein, at the direction of the
Beneficiary, hereby elects to
sell the property described in
the Trust Deed to satisfy the
obligations secured thereby.
Pursuant to ORS 86.745, the
following information is provided: 1. PARTIES: Grantor:
KATHLEEN
A.
SWAN.
Trustee: FIRST AMERICAN
TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY OF OREGON. Successor Trustee: NANCY K. CARY.
Beneficiary: OREGON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT, STATE
OF OREGON as assignee of
BANK OF THE CASCADES
MORTGAGE CENTER. 2. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:
The real property is described as follows: Lot Eight
(8), THE WILLOWS PHASE I,
recorded May 13, 1993 in
Cabinet C, Page 773, Deschutes County, Oregon. 3.
RECORDING. The Trust Deed
was recorded as follows:
Date Recorded: November
16, 2005. Recording No.
2005-79120 Official Records
of Deschutes County, Oregon. 4. DEFAULT.
The
Grantor or any other person
obligated on the Trust Deed
and Promissory Note secured thereby is in default
and the Beneficiary seeks to
foreclose the Trust Deed for
failure to pay: Monthly payments in the amount of
$971.00 each, due the first of
each month, for the months
of March 2010 through July
2010; plus late charges and
advances; plus any unpaid
real property taxes or liens,
plus interest. 5. AMOUNT
DUE. The amount due on the
Note which is secured by the
Trust Deed referred to herein
is: Principal balance in the
amount of $135,816.26; plus
interest at the rate of
4.9500% per annum from
February 1, 2010; plus late
charges of $563.30; plus advances and foreclosure attorney fees and costs. 6. SALE
OF PROPERTY. The Trustee
hereby states that the property will be sold to satisfy the
obligations secured by the
Trust Deed. A Trustee's Notice of Default and Election
to Sell Under Terms of Trust
Deed has been recorded in
the Official Records of Deschutes County, Oregon. 7.
TIME OF SALE. Date:
December 16, 2010. Time:
11:00 a.m. Place: Deschutes
County Courthouse, 1164
NW Bond Street, Bend, Oregon. 8. RIGHT TO REINSTATE. Any person named in
ORS 86.753 has the right, at
any time that is not later
than five days before the
Trustee conducts the sale, to
have this foreclosure dismissed and the Trust Deed
reinstated by payment to the
Beneficiary of the entire
amount then due, other than
such portion of the principal

as would not then be due had
no default occurred, by curing any other default that is
capable of being cured by
tendering the performance
required under the obligation or Trust Deed and by
paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in
enforcing the obligation and
Trust Deed, together with the
trustee's and attorney's fees
not exceeding the amount
provided in ORS 86.753. You
may reach the Oregon State
Bar's Lawyer Referral Service
at 503-684-3763 or toll-free
in Oregon at 800-452-7636
or you may visit its website
at: www.osbar.org. Legal assistance may be available if
you have a low income and
meet federal poverty guidelines. For more information
and a directory of legal aid
programs,
go
to
http://www.oregonlawhelp.o
rg. Any questions regarding
this matter should be directed to Lisa Summers,
Paralegal, (541) 686-0344
(TS #07754.30297). DATED:
August 5, 2010. /s/ Nancy K.
Cary. Nancy K. Cary, Successor
Trustee,
Hershner
Hunter, LLP, P.O. Box 1475,
Eugene, OR 97440.
LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
The Trustee under the terms
of the Trust Deed described
herein, at the direction of the
Beneficiary, hereby elects to
sell the property described in
the Trust Deed to satisfy the
obligations secured thereby.
Pursuant to ORS 86.745, the
following information is provided: 1. PARTIES: Grantor:
JULIE B. GRAHAM. Trustee:
FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY OF OREGON. Successor Trustee:
NANCY K. CARY. Beneficiary:
WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB.
2. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: The real property is
described as follows: Lot
Three (3), ALPENVIEW ESTATES PHASE I, recorded
March 16, 1995, in Cabinet
D, Page 107, Deschutes
County, Oregon. 3. RECORDING. The Trust Deed was recorded as follows: Date Recorded: February 20, 2007
Recording No. 2007-10247
Official Records of Deschutes County, Oregon. 4.
DEFAULT. The Grantor or
any other person obligated
on the Trust Deed and
Promissory Note secured
thereby is in default and the
Beneficiary seeks to foreclose the Trust Deed for failure to pay: Monthly payments in the amount of
$1,186.06 each, due the fifteenth of each month, for the
months of April 2010 through
July 2010; plus late charges
and advances; plus any unpaid real property taxes or
liens, plus interest. 5.
AMOUNT DUE. The amount
due on the Note which is secured by the Trust Deed referred to herein is: Principal
balance in the amount of
$222,371.76; plus interest at
an adjustable rate pursuant
to the terms of the Promissory Note from March 15,
2010; plus late charges of
$138.27; plus advances and
foreclosure attorney fees and
costs. 6. SALE OF PROPERTY.
The Trustee hereby states
that the property will be sold
to satisfy the obligations secured by the Trust Deed. A
Trustee's Notice of Default
and Election to Sell Under
Terms of Trust Deed has
been recorded in the Official
Records
of
Deschutes
County, Oregon. 7. TIME OF
SALE. Date: December 16,
2010. Time:
11:00
a.m.
Place: Deschutes
County
Courthouse, 1164 NW Bond
Street, Bend, Oregon. 8.
RIGHT TO REINSTATE. Any
person named in ORS 86.753
has the right, at any time
that is not later than five
days before the Trustee conducts the sale, to have this
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LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: xxxxxx1630 T.S. No.: 1291570-09.
Reference is made to that certain deed made by Patrick Whelan, as Grantor to Western Title & Escrow Company, as Trustee, in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. As Nominee For Northwest Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, dated March 02, 2007, recorded March
08, 2007, in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx,
fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No. 2007-13975 covering the following described real
property situated in said County and State, to-wit:
Lot 6, Gallatin, Phases I and II, City of Bend,
Deschutes County, Oregon.
Commonly known as:
61529 Tall Tree Ct. Bend OR 97702.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the
obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section
86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the
grantor's: Failure to pay the monthly payment due November 1, 2009 of principal, interest and
impounds and subsequent installments due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all
subsequent sums advanced by beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of
trust. Monthly payment $1,786.55 Monthly Late Charge $75.53. By this reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and
payable, said sums being the following, to-wit; The sum of $273,600.00 together with interest
thereon at 6.625% per annum from October 01, 2009 until paid; plus all accrued late charges
thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs and any sums advance by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms and conditions of the said deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given
that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation the undersigned trustee will on January 10, 2011 at
the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of Time, as established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised
Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of
Bend, County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash
the interest in the said described real property which the grantor had or had power to convey at
the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any interest which the
grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expense of sale, including a reasonable
charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed
reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion
of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs,
trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any other default complained of in the Notice of Default
by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five
days before the date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in
interest to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which
is secured by said trust deed, the words "trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective
successors in interest, if any. Dated: August 30, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant
of this property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this
property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of
the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move
out after giving you a 30- day notice on or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term
lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's
requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give
the trustee of the property written evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the
date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental
agreement, you may give the trustee other written evidence of the existence of the rental
agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the sale is December 11, 2010, the name
of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may grant
you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more
information about you rights under federal law. You have the right to apply your security deposit
and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your rental agreement. If you want
to do so, you must notify your landlord in writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you
believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask
for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this
notice: If you have a low income and meet federal poverty guide-lines, you may be eligible for
free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can obtain free legal assistance is
included with this notice. OREGON STATE BAR 16037 SW Upper Boones Ferry Road Tigard,
Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260 http://www.osbar.org Directory of Legal Aid
Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main
Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004 Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation
Signature/By: Tammy Laird
R-341691 09/30, 10/07, 10/14, 10/21

the Trust Deed reinstated by
payment to the Beneficiary of
the entire amount then due,
other than such portion of
the principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred, by curing any other
default that is capable of being cured by tendering the
performance required under
the obligation or Trust Deed
and by paying all costs and
expenses actually incurred in
enforcing the obligation and
Trust Deed, together with the
trustee's and attorney's fees
not exceeding the amount
provided in ORS 86.753. You
may reach the Oregon State
Bar's Lawyer Referral Service
at 503-684-3763 or toll-free
in Oregon at 800-452-7636
or you may visit its website
at: www.osbar.org. Legal assistance may be available if
you have a low income and
meet federal poverty guidelines. For more information
and a directory of legal aid
programs,
go
to
http://www.oregonlawhelp.o
rg. Any questions regarding
this matter should be directed to Lisa Summers,
Paralegal, (541) 686-0344
(TS #17368.30781). DATED:
August 3, 2010. /s/ Nancy K.
Cary. Nancy K. Cary, Successor
Trustee,
Hershner
Hunter, LLP, P.O. Box 1475,
Eugene, OR 97440.
LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
The Trustee under the terms
of the Trust Deed described
herein, at the direction of the
Beneficiary, hereby elects to
sell the property described in
the Trust Deed to satisfy the
obligations secured thereby.
Pursuant to ORS 86.745, the
following information is provided: 1. PARTIES: Grantor:
TONY ATKINSON, KELLY ATKINSON, and KATHY J. FISH.
Trustee: FIRST AMERICAN
TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY OF OREGON. Successor Trustee: NANCY K. CARY.
Beneficiary: WORLD
SAVINGS BANK, FSB. 2. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:
The real property is described as follows: Lot
Twenty-five (25), RIDGEWATER II, P.U.D., City of Bend,
recorded July 3, 2003, in
Cabinet F, Page 567, Deschutes County, Oregon. 3.
RECORDING. The Trust Deed
was recorded as follows:
Date Recorded: November 6,
2006.
Recording
No.
2006-73533 Official Records
of Deschutes County, Oregon. 4. DEFAULT.
The
Grantor or any other person
obligated on the Trust Deed
and Promissory Note secured thereby is in default
and the Beneficiary seeks to
foreclose the Trust Deed for
failure to pay: Monthly payments in the amount of
$1,890.56 each, due the fifteenth of each month, for the
months of September 2009
through June 2010; plus late
charges and advances; plus
any unpaid real property
taxes or liens, plus interest.
5. AMOUNT DUE.
The
amount due on the Note
which is secured by the Trust
Deed referred to herein is:
Principal balance in the
amount of $431,624.50; plus
interest at an adjustable rate

pursuant to the terms of the
Promissory Note from August 15, 2009; plus late
charges of $817.25; plus advances and foreclosure attorney fees and costs. 6. SALE
OF PROPERTY. The Trustee
hereby states that the property will be sold to satisfy the
obligations secured by the
Trust Deed. A Trustee's Notice of Default and Election
to Sell Under Terms of Trust
Deed has been recorded in
the Official Records of Deschutes County, Oregon. 7.
TIME OF SALE. Date:
November 4, 2010. Time: 11:00
a.m. Place: Deschutes County
Courthouse, 1164 NW Bond
Street, Bend, Oregon. 8.
RIGHT TO REINSTATE. Any
person named in ORS 86.753
has the right, at any time
that is not later than five
days before the Trustee conducts the sale, to have this
foreclosure dismissed and
the Trust Deed reinstated by
payment to the Beneficiary of
the entire amount then due,
other than such portion of
the principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred, by curing any other
default that is capable of being cured by tendering the
performance required under
the obligation or Trust Deed
and by paying all costs and
expenses actually incurred in
enforcing the obligation and
Trust Deed, together with the
trustee's and attorney's fees
not exceeding the amount
provided in ORS 86.753. You
may reach the Oregon State
Bar's Lawyer Referral Service
at 503-684-3763 or toll-free
in Oregon at 800-452-7636
or you may visit its website
at: www.osbar.org. Legal assistance may be available if
you have a low income and
meet federal poverty guidelines. For more information
and a directory of legal aid
programs,
go
to
http://www.oregonlawhelp.o
rg. Any questions regarding
this matter should be directed to Lisa Summers,
Paralegal, (541) 686-0344
(TS #17368.30732). DATED:
June 23, 2010. /s/ Nancy K.
Cary. Nancy K. Cary, Successor
Trustee,
Hershner
Hunter, LLP, P.O. Box 1475,
Eugene, OR 97440.

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LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO
REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS
Date of Notice: October 7, 2010
Name of Responsible Entity (RE)
City of Bend
Address:
710 NW Wall Street
City, State, Zip Code:
Bend, OR 97701
Telephone Number of RE Preparer Agency:
(541)312-4915
These notices shall satisfy two separate but related procedural
requirements for activities to be undertaken by the City of Bend
or Grantee
REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF FUNDS
On or about October 22, 2010 the City of Bend will submit a request to the Oregon Department of Housing and Community
Services for the release of Neighborhood Stabilization funds
under Division B, Title III of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008, as amended, to undertake three
projects known as:
Merrick Subdivision Acquisition, for the acquisition of eleven
building lots to provide affordable housing in Bend, Oregon.
The project site includes eleven lots (Lots 10, 11, 12, 13, 25,
26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Merrick Subdivision, Deschutes County,
Bend, OR 97702).
Shady Pines Subdivision Acquisition, for the acquisition of one
structure and nine building lots to provide affordable housing in
Bend, Oregon. The project site includes ten lots (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 of SHADY PINES subdivision, recorded July 28,
2008, in Cabinet H-787, Deschutes County, Oregon).
Timber Creek Acquisition, for the acquisition of five building
lots to provide affordable housing in Sisters, Oregon. The
project site includes five building lots (Lots 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11,
TIMBER CREEK II, PHASE 3, recorded December 5, 2005, in
Cabinet G page 995, Deschutes County, Oregon).
FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
The City of Bend has determined that the project will have no
significant impact on the human environment. Therefore, an
environmental Impact Statement under the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) is not required. Additional project information is contained in the Environmental
Review Record (ERR) on file at the City of Bend, 710 NW Wall
Street, Bend, OR 97701 and may be examined or copied
weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Any individual, group, or agency disagreeing with this determination or wishing to comment on the project bay submit
written comments to the City of Bend at 710 NW Wall Street,
Bend, OR 97701, attention: Jim Long, Affordable Housing
Manager. All comments received within fifteen days form the
publishing date will be considered by the City of Bend prior to
authorizing submission of a request for release of funds.
Comments should specify which Notice they are addressing.
RELEASE OF FUNDS
The City of Bend certifies the Jim Long, in his capacity of
Affordable Housing Manager, and Certifying Officer consents to
accept the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is
brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been
satisfies. HUD's approval of the certification satisfies its
responsibilities under NEPA and related laws.
OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS
Oregon Housing and Community Services will accept objections
to its release of funds and the City of Bend's certification for a
period of fifteen days following the anticipated submission date
or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if
they are on one of the following bases: (a) the certification was
not executed by the Certifying Officer of the City of Bend; (b)
the City of Bend has omitted a step or failed to make a decision
or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58 before
approval of a release of funds by HUD; or (d) another Federal
agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a
written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the
standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be
prepared and submitted in accordance with the required
procedures (24 CFR Part 58) and shall be addressed to Oregon
Housing and Community Services, NSP Coordinator, 725
Summer St. NE, Suite B, Salem, OR 97301-1266
Jim Long
Affordable Housing Manager
City of Bend
710 NW Wall Street
Bend, OR 97701
Published: September 10, 2010

LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 0030930879 T.SNo.: 10-10263-6 Reference is
made to that certain deed
made by, ANTONIO MENDEZ
as Grantor to WESTERN
TITLE ESCROW AND ESCROW COMPANY, as trustee,
in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, recorded on January
25, 2006, as Instrument No.
2006-05527 of Official
Records in the office of the
Recorder of Deschutes
County, OR to-wit: APN:
241009 LOT NINETEEN (19),
FORREST COMMONS, RECORDED SEPTEMBER 19,
2003, IN CABINET G, PAGE
46, DESCHUTES COUNTY,
OREGON Commonly known
as: 1327 NW 18TH STREET,
REDMOND, OR Both the beneficiary and the trustee have
elected to sell the said real
property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust
deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section
86.735(3} of Oregon Revised Statutes: the default
for which the foreclosure is
made is the grantor's: failed
to pay payments which became due; together with late
charges due; failed to pay
advances made by the Beneficiary; Monthly Payment
$803.91 Monthly Late Charge
$40.20 By this reason of said
default the beneficiary has
declared all obligations secured by said deed of trust
immediately due and payable, said sums being the
following, to-wit: The sum of
$ 154,349.99 together with
interest thereon at the rate
of 6.25000 % per annum

from March 1, 2010 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all
trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE
INSURANCE COMPANY, the
undersigned trustee will on
January 18, 2011 at the hour
of 11:00 AM, Standard of
Time, as established by section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statues, at the front
entrance of the Courthouse,
1164 N.W. Bond Street,
Bend, OR. County of Deschutes , State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
property which the grantor
had or had power to convey
at the time of the execution
by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest
which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said
trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the
trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's or attorney's
fees and curing any other

default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time
prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION,
PLEASE CONTACT FIDELITY
NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, 17592 E.
17th Street, Suite 300, Tustin, CA 92780 714-508-5100
SALE INFORMATION CAN BE
OBTAINED ON LINE AT
www.fideljtyasap.com/ AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL
714-259-7850 In construing
this notice, the masculine
gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the
word "grantor" includes any
successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other
persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed,
the words "trustee'' and
'beneficiary" include their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: September 30, 2010 FIDELITY
NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY Michael
Busby ASAP# 3759199
10/07/2010, 10/14/2010,
10/21/2010, 10/28/2010

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LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
T.S. No.: OR-10-374111-NH
Reference is made to that certain deed made by, PEDRO VARGAS, SR. as Grantor to FIRST
AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY OF OREGON, as trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR PACIFIC COMMUNITY MORTGAGE,
INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION. A CORPORATION, as Beneficiary, dated 11/30/2006, recorded 12/7/2006, in official records of DESCHUTES County, Oregon in book/ reel/ volume number xxx at page number xxx fee/ file/ instrument/ microfile/ reception number 2006-80194, covering the following described real property situated in said County and State, to-wit:
APN: 241945
LOT 25 OF FAIRHAVEN PHASE VI, CITY OF REDMOND,
DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON.
Commonly known as:
533 NW 24TH STREET REDMOND, OR 97756
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of
Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantors: The installments of principal and interest which became due on 4/1/2010, and all subsequent installments of principal and interest through the date of this Notice, plus amounts that are due for late
charges, delinquent property taxes, insurance premiums, advances made on senior liens, taxes
and/or insurance, trustee's fees, and any attorney fees and court costs arising from or associated
with the beneficiaries efforts to protect and preserve its security, all of which must be paid as a
condition of reinstatement, including all sums that shall accrue through reinstatement or pay-off.
Nothing in this notice shall be construed as a waiver of any fees owing to the Beneficiary under
the Deed of Trust pursuant to the terms of the loan documents. Monthly Payment $1,348.00
Monthly Late Charge $67.40 By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said deed of trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the following,
to-wit: The sum of $182,491.70 together with interest thereon at the rate of 6.3750 per annum
from 3/1/2010 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms of said deed of trust.
Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned
trustee will on 1/14/2011 at the hour of 1:00:00 PM , Standard of Time, as established by section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statues, at At the front entrance to the Deschutes County Courthouse, 1164 NW Bond St., Bend, OR County of DESCHUTES, State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which the
grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any
person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire
amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any other default
complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. For Sale Information Call: 714-573-1965 or Login to: www.priorityposting.com In construing this notice, the
masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word
"grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an
obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the words "trustee" and
'beneficiary" include their respective successors in interest, if any. Pursuant to Oregon Law, this
sale will not be deemed final until the Trustee's deed has been issued by LSI TITLE COMPANY OF
OREGON, LLC. If there are any irregularities discovered within 10 days of the date of this sale,
that the trustee will rescind the sale, return the buyer's money and take further action as
necessary. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and
exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall
have no further recourse. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be
entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against
the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee's Attorney. NOTICE TO RESIDENTIAL TENANTS
The property in which you are living is in foreclosure. A foreclosure sale is scheduled for
1/14/2011. Unless the lender who is foreclosing on this property is paid, the foreclosure will go
through and someone new will own this property. The following information applies to you only if
you occupy and rent this property as a residential dwelling under a legitimate rental agreement.
The information does not apply to you if you own this property or if you are not a residential
tenant. If the foreclosure goes through, the business or individual who buys this property at the
foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out. The buyer must first give you an
eviction notice in writing that specifies the date by which you must move out. The buyer may not
give you this notice until after the foreclosure sale happens. If you do not leave before the
move-out date, the buyer can have the sheriff remove you from the property after a court hearing.
You will receive notice of the court hearing. FEDERAL LAW REQUIRES YOU TO BE NOTIFIED IF
YOU ARE OCCUPYING AND RENTING THIS PROPERTY AS A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNDER A
LEGITIMATE RENTAL AGREEMENT, FEDERAL LAW REQUIRES THE BUYER TO GIVE YOU A NOTICE
IN WRITING A CERTAIN NUMBER OF DAYS BEFORE THE BUYER CAN REQUIRE YOU TO MOVE
OUT. THE FEDERAL LAW THAT REQUIRES THE BUYER TO GIVE YOU THIS NOTICE IS EFFECTIVE
UNTIL DECEMBER 31,2012. Under federal law, the buyer must give you at least 90 days' notice in
writing before requiring you to move out. If you are renting this property under a fixed-term lease
(for example, a six-month or one-year lease), you may stay until the end of your lease term. If the
buyer wants to move in and use this property as the buyer's primary residence, the buyer can give
you written notice and require you to move out after 90 days, even if you have a fixed-term lease
with more than 90 days left. STATE LAW NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS IF THE FEDERAL LAW
DOES NOT APPLY, STATE LAW STILL REQUIRES THE BUYER TO GIVE YOU NOTICE IN WRITING
BEFORE REQUIRING YOU TO MOVE OUT IF YOU ARE OCCUPYING AND RENTING THE PROPERTY
AS A TENANT IN GOOD FAITH. EVEN IF THE FEDERAL LAW REQUIREMENT IS NO LONGER
EFFECTIVE AFTER DECEMBER 31,2012, THE REQUIREMENT UNDER STATE LAW STILL APPLIES
TO YOUR SITUATION. Under state law, if you have a fixed-term lease (for example, a six-month or
one-year lease), the buyer must give you at least 60 days' notice in writing before requiring you to
move out. If the buyer wants to move in and use this property as the buyer's primary residence,
the buyer can give you written notice and require you to move out after 30 days, even if you have
a fixed-term lease with more than 30 days left. If you are renting under a month-to-month or
week-to-week rental agreement, the buyer must give you at least 30 days' notice in writing before
requiring you to move out. IMPORTANT: For the buyer to be required to give you a notice under
state law, you must prove to the business or individual who is handling the foreclosure sale that
you are occupying and renting this property as a residential dwelling under a legitimate rental
agreement. The name and address of the business or individual who is handling the foreclosure
sale is shown on this notice under the heading "TRUSTEE". You must mail or deliver your proof not
later than 12/15/2010 (30 days before the date first set for the foreclosure sale). Your proof must
be in writing and should be a copy of your rental agreement or lease. If you do not have a written
rental agreement or lease, you can provide other proof, such as receipts for rent paid. ABOUT
YOUR SECURITY DEPOSIT Under state law, you may apply your security deposit and any rent you
paid in advance against the current rent you owe your landlord. To do this, you must notify your
landlord in writing that you want to subtract the amount of your security deposit or prepaid rent
from your rent payment. You may do this only for the rent you owe your current landlord. If you
do this, you must do so before the foreclosure sale. The business or individual who buys this
property at the foreclosure sale is not responsible to you for any deposit or prepaid rent you paid
to your landlord. ABOUT YOUR TENACY AFTER THE FORECLOSURE SALE The business or
individual who buys this property at the foreclosure sale may be willing to allow you to stay as a
tenant instead of requiring you to move out. You should contact the buyer to discuss that
possibility if you would like to stay. Under state law, if the buyer accepts rent from you, signs a
new residential rental agreement with you or does not notify you in writing within 30 days after
the date of the foreclosure sale that you must move out, the buyer becomes your new landlord
and must maintain the property. Otherwise, the buyer is not your landlord and is not responsible
for maintaining the property on your behalf and you must move out by the date the buyer
specifies in a notice to you. YOU SHOULD CONTINUE TO PAY RENT TO YOUR LANDLORD UNTIL
THE PROPERTY IS SOLD TO ANOTHER BUSINESS OR INDIVIDUAL OR UNTIL A COURT OR A
LENDER TELLS YOU OTHERWISE. IF YOU DO NOT PAY RENT, YOU CAN BE EVICTED. AS
EXPLAINED ABOVE, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO APPLY A DEPOSIT OR RENT YOU PREPAID AGAINST
YOUR CURRENT RENT OBLIGATION. BE SURE TO KEEP PROOF OF ANY PAYMENTS YOU MAKE
AND OF ANY NOTICE YOU GIVE OR RECEIVE CONCERNING THE APPLICATION OF YOUR
DEPOSIT OR PREPAID RENT. IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO TRY TO FORCE YOU TO
LEAVE YOUR HOME WITHOUT FIRST GOING TO COURT TO EVICT YOU. FOR MORE
INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS, YOU MAY WISH TO CONSULT A LAWYER. If you believe
you need legal assistance, contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service.
Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice. If you do not have
enough money to pay a lawyer or are otherwise eligible, you may be able to receive legal
assistance for free. Information about whom to contact for free legal assistance is included with
this notice. Oregon State Bar: (503) 684-3763; (800) 452-7636 Legal assistance:
www.lawhelp.org/or/index.cfm Dated: 9/8/2010 LSI TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, as
trustee 3220 El Camino Real Irvine, CA 92602 Signature By Angelica Castillo, Assistant Secretary
Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington as agent for LSI TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC
2141 5th Avenue San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For Non-Sale Information: Quality Loan
Service Corp. of Washington 2141 5th Avenue San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 Fax:
619-645-7716 If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been
released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note
holder's rights against the real property only. THIS OFFICE IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT
AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. As required by law, you
are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted
to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations.
ASAP# 3729671 09/23/2010, 09/30/2010, 10/07/2010, 10/14/2010